3. Email saying that I know your password and Ive got footage of you knocking one out . If you dont pay up the footage is going to your social media contacts. The password was correct but an old one.
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I’ve only just appreciated the slightly scary extent of how easily passwords and usernames are eventually leaked and stored on some deep dark database somewhere. Until very recently I was that guy who used same password for everything..I only realised how vulnerable I was making myself when Apple’s new Keychain features informed me my password and username combos were involved in multiple data leaks (similar, some think even more thorough, service to ‘haveibeenpwned’ website).
Since then have sorted things out with a password manager and just automatically creating and saving some proper da Vinci code passwords whenever signing upto anything particularly ones with financial info/personal info.
There's the Royal Mail one where they text you and say you have to pay extra for your postage.
Inland Revenue email, they don't send email.
Anyone seen that YouTube channel where he plays along with them using a voice disguise, he accepts there links and then sends them a virus deleting all there files.
comment by Vorsprung durch Tuchel (U1641)
posted 1 minute ago
3. Email saying that I know your password and Ive got footage of you knocking one out . If you dont pay up the footage is going to your social media contacts. The password was correct but an old one.
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I’ve only just appreciated the slightly scary extent of how easily passwords and usernames are eventually leaked and stored on some deep dark database somewhere. Until very recently I was that guy who used same password for everything..I only realised how vulnerable I was making myself when Apple’s new Keychain features informed me my password and username combos were involved in multiple data leaks (similar, some think even more thorough, service to ‘haveibeenpwned’ website).
Since then have sorted things out with a password manager and just automatically creating and saving some proper da Vinci code passwords whenever signing upto anything particularly ones with financial info/personal info.
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We all knock one out, if you say you don't your lying. nothing to worry about.
My girlfriend recently just out of the blue had her debit card details leaked somehow and over the course of just a couple days around £300 was taken. All small purchases of around £15-20 max, all sites such as deliveroo, just eat, uber eats, ebay and Etsy.
This crept under her bank’s fraud algorithm and she only noticed incidentally checking her account. She hadn’t used an ATM in several months, so we doubt it was from a card-reader. More likely a data leak, and her card details were released for people to use (not one person) with instructions to not make big purchases.
The money has been returned by the bank thankfully. But it is strange that with online transactions banks/VISA (at least both my nan and her bank) don’t have either a two factor authentication system or even a simple text update anytime you spend sent to your phone. The latter could be for online or PIN code transactions, ideally.
comment by Edward Elizabeth Hitler. (U14393)
posted 5 minutes ago
There's the Royal Mail one where they text you and say you have to pay extra for your postage.
Inland Revenue email, they don't send email.
Anyone seen that YouTube channel where he plays along with them using a voice disguise, he accepts there links and then sends them a virus deleting all there files.
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Is that the Scottish guy? There’s some popular Scottish YouTuber who goes round like some vigilante hitting back at scammers, can’t remember the channel name thoigh.
The parcel ones are annoying at first, especially if you order a lot of parcels. The royal mail one's are ridiculous because there's no way they'd email you about a missed parcel as you get the little red slip. The covid vaccine one was almost convincing as it said im classed as vulnerable and my family genetics allign with that so I've been selected. I'm nowhere near vulnerable lol but 2 of my family were classed as vulnerable.
Don't trust anything you receive my email unless its something that you are 100% sure you have purchased recently. If in doubt, google search what you receive and see if that scam has been made aware.
comment by Vorsprung durch Tuchel (U1641)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Edward Elizabeth Hitler. (U14393)
posted 5 minutes ago
There's the Royal Mail one where they text you and say you have to pay extra for your postage.
Inland Revenue email, they don't send email.
Anyone seen that YouTube channel where he plays along with them using a voice disguise, he accepts there links and then sends them a virus deleting all there files.
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Is that the Scottish guy? There’s some popular Scottish YouTuber who goes round like some vigilante hitting back at scammers, can’t remember the channel name thoigh.
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Nah his American keeps them on the phone for about 3 hours pretending to be elderly, he had one of them asking him to please give me back my files
Most common ones I’ve seen recently are the texts pretending to be from banks with fraud warnings. Often they include a bank you don’t have an account with so it’s pretty obvious but can see a lot of people falling into that trap.
Recently had a fraudster attempt to use my debit card to book a holiday to Amsterdam as well. Cheeky cuuntt could have invited me at least
Had a royal mail one text me yesterday, never had one before
comment by Geoff Tipps (U1449)
posted 2 hours, 13 minutes ago
3. Email saying that I know your password and Ive got footage of you knocking one out . If you dont pay up the footage is going to your social media contacts. The password was correct but an old one.
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And the footage?
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No Footage
comment by Vorsprung durch Tuchel (U1641)
posted 1 hour, 6 minutes ago
3. Email saying that I know your password and Ive got footage of you knocking one out . If you dont pay up the footage is going to your social media contacts. The password was correct but an old one.
————————
I’ve only just appreciated the slightly scary extent of how easily passwords and usernames are eventually leaked and stored on some deep dark database somewhere. Until very recently I was that guy who used same password for everything..I only realised how vulnerable I was making myself when Apple’s new Keychain features informed me my password and username combos were involved in multiple data leaks (similar, some think even more thorough, service to ‘haveibeenpwned’ website).
Since then have sorted things out with a password manager and just automatically creating and saving some proper da Vinci code passwords whenever signing upto anything particularly ones with financial info/personal info.
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Linkedin was the site that had a leak a few years back
https://haveibeenpwned.com/
I've had the Royal Mail pay extra one. The Inland Revenue tax refund one and one where I got a voicemail message which said there was a tax fraud associated with my name and to press 1. I didn't. I've also had the Amazon Prime renewal scammer call telling me my prime account is going to renew and to press 1 to cancel. I don't subscribe to it anyway. There used to be a regular Microsoft Windows scammer who tried to gain remote access to my PC because of some ficticious problem they'd found.
I've had fake hmrc call saying there is a lawsuit against me lol
I don't know if this scam happens in the UK but this one shocked me on how sophisticated this one was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrKW58MS12g
comment by Passion Power - Make 1984 fiction again (U8398)
posted 37 minutes ago
I don't know if this scam happens in the UK but this one shocked me on how sophisticated this one was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrKW58MS12g
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Tbf this scam was one of craziest ever, can’t believe so many fell for it
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1UXYMPTdC40
Information from Cifas:
https://www.cifas.org.uk/coronavirus-fraud-advice
Almost believed the parcel delivery text because I was expecting a delivery the same day. Said they missed me and I had to change delivery days, clicked link to website that looked identical to Hermes, only stopped believing it when it said you had to pay for redelivery
Keep getting random mobile numbers calling me as well recently, turns out it’s more common now that telemarketers hide their number with mobiles numbers as people are more likely to answer
This is what they do.
I'm normal hyper-cautious and alert to everything, but I was caught out just before Christmas
We'd been having Wi-Fi problems with Virgin Media, and I ended up posting my questions & findings on their help forum
A few minutes later, I took a call on the landline (part 1 of my failing) and the caller said they from BT and asked if I had been having problems with my internet
#2 failure - I said yes
#3 - I let him dial into my laptop to try and fathom out what was going on (big mistake. HUGE mistake)
He said he need to run some diagnostics and that my screen would go blank, which it did.
Eventually he just disappeared off the line and disconnected from the laptop
Now my suspicions were fully engaged so I ran a full diagnostic & clean up, reset the Wi-Fi password and the Hub password. Luckily, the laptop was only about a month old and didn't have a huge amount of personal data on it, not like my old one!
A couple of days later, I noticed an odd transaction appearing in the "payments awaiting approval" on our company's bank account. Luckily we have 2 factor authorisation and no payment is sanctioned unless approved by a director. But it was something that this git had tried to push through.
Then I remembered - a week or so earlier I had to access this bank account on my own laptop as the work one was down. So they must, somehow have managed to lift by logon details for the company account.
I think I got off lightly
Wow that was pretty dumb dude.
Never, ever let anyone into your computer if you do t totally trust them. Could have been worse.
Had a text from a number claiming to be Royal Mail, trying to scam you about undelivered parcels or something , I didnt read it too carefully, just deleted knew it was a scam they are so easy to spot these days
comment by Keep It Greasy - Music is the BEST (U1396)
posted 1 hour, 38 minutes ago
This is what they do.
I'm normal hyper-cautious and alert to everything, but I was caught out just before Christmas
We'd been having Wi-Fi problems with Virgin Media, and I ended up posting my questions & findings on their help forum
A few minutes later, I took a call on the landline (part 1 of my failing) and the caller said they from BT and asked if I had been having problems with my internet
#2 failure - I said yes
#3 - I let him dial into my laptop to try and fathom out what was going on (big mistake. HUGE mistake)
He said he need to run some diagnostics and that my screen would go blank, which it did.
Eventually he just disappeared off the line and disconnected from the laptop
Now my suspicions were fully engaged so I ran a full diagnostic & clean up, reset the Wi-Fi password and the Hub password. Luckily, the laptop was only about a month old and didn't have a huge amount of personal data on it, not like my old one!
A couple of days later, I noticed an odd transaction appearing in the "payments awaiting approval" on our company's bank account. Luckily we have 2 factor authorisation and no payment is sanctioned unless approved by a director. But it was something that this git had tried to push through.
Then I remembered - a week or so earlier I had to access this bank account on my own laptop as the work one was down. So they must, somehow have managed to lift by logon details for the company account.
I think I got off lightly
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Are you really that dumb?
I have a standard response. I never give any details or access to anyone who phones me even if Im expecting them to call me back.
comment by The Wonky Kronke (U16927)
posted 1 hour, 30 minutes ago
comment by Keep It Greasy - Music is the BEST (U1396)
posted 1 hour, 38 minutes ago
This is what they do.
I'm normal hyper-cautious and alert to everything, but I was caught out just before Christmas
We'd been having Wi-Fi problems with Virgin Media, and I ended up posting my questions & findings on their help forum
A few minutes later, I took a call on the landline (part 1 of my failing) and the caller said they from BT and asked if I had been having problems with my internet
#2 failure - I said yes
#3 - I let him dial into my laptop to try and fathom out what was going on (big mistake. HUGE mistake)
He said he need to run some diagnostics and that my screen would go blank, which it did.
Eventually he just disappeared off the line and disconnected from the laptop
Now my suspicions were fully engaged so I ran a full diagnostic & clean up, reset the Wi-Fi password and the Hub password. Luckily, the laptop was only about a month old and didn't have a huge amount of personal data on it, not like my old one!
A couple of days later, I noticed an odd transaction appearing in the "payments awaiting approval" on our company's bank account. Luckily we have 2 factor authorisation and no payment is sanctioned unless approved by a director. But it was something that this git had tried to push through.
Then I remembered - a week or so earlier I had to access this bank account on my own laptop as the work one was down. So they must, somehow have managed to lift by logon details for the company account.
I think I got off lightly
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Are you really that dumb?
I have a standard response. I never give any details or access to anyone who phones me even if Im expecting them to call me back.
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On this one, solitary occasion I was dumb
And I'm always the first in my peer group to waffle on about internet security
But it was SO plausible, having just been on a forum discussing the exact situation this guy *said* he could fix
Scams always seem dumb when recounting it. Doesn’t change that even savvy and cautious people can fall victim to them sometimes.
There is the account has been suspended scam
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posted on 2/4/21
3. Email saying that I know your password and Ive got footage of you knocking one out . If you dont pay up the footage is going to your social media contacts. The password was correct but an old one.
————————
I’ve only just appreciated the slightly scary extent of how easily passwords and usernames are eventually leaked and stored on some deep dark database somewhere. Until very recently I was that guy who used same password for everything..I only realised how vulnerable I was making myself when Apple’s new Keychain features informed me my password and username combos were involved in multiple data leaks (similar, some think even more thorough, service to ‘haveibeenpwned’ website).
Since then have sorted things out with a password manager and just automatically creating and saving some proper da Vinci code passwords whenever signing upto anything particularly ones with financial info/personal info.
posted on 2/4/21
There's the Royal Mail one where they text you and say you have to pay extra for your postage.
Inland Revenue email, they don't send email.
Anyone seen that YouTube channel where he plays along with them using a voice disguise, he accepts there links and then sends them a virus deleting all there files.
posted on 2/4/21
comment by Vorsprung durch Tuchel (U1641)
posted 1 minute ago
3. Email saying that I know your password and Ive got footage of you knocking one out . If you dont pay up the footage is going to your social media contacts. The password was correct but an old one.
————————
I’ve only just appreciated the slightly scary extent of how easily passwords and usernames are eventually leaked and stored on some deep dark database somewhere. Until very recently I was that guy who used same password for everything..I only realised how vulnerable I was making myself when Apple’s new Keychain features informed me my password and username combos were involved in multiple data leaks (similar, some think even more thorough, service to ‘haveibeenpwned’ website).
Since then have sorted things out with a password manager and just automatically creating and saving some proper da Vinci code passwords whenever signing upto anything particularly ones with financial info/personal info.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
We all knock one out, if you say you don't your lying. nothing to worry about.
posted on 2/4/21
My girlfriend recently just out of the blue had her debit card details leaked somehow and over the course of just a couple days around £300 was taken. All small purchases of around £15-20 max, all sites such as deliveroo, just eat, uber eats, ebay and Etsy.
This crept under her bank’s fraud algorithm and she only noticed incidentally checking her account. She hadn’t used an ATM in several months, so we doubt it was from a card-reader. More likely a data leak, and her card details were released for people to use (not one person) with instructions to not make big purchases.
The money has been returned by the bank thankfully. But it is strange that with online transactions banks/VISA (at least both my nan and her bank) don’t have either a two factor authentication system or even a simple text update anytime you spend sent to your phone. The latter could be for online or PIN code transactions, ideally.
posted on 2/4/21
comment by Edward Elizabeth Hitler. (U14393)
posted 5 minutes ago
There's the Royal Mail one where they text you and say you have to pay extra for your postage.
Inland Revenue email, they don't send email.
Anyone seen that YouTube channel where he plays along with them using a voice disguise, he accepts there links and then sends them a virus deleting all there files.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Is that the Scottish guy? There’s some popular Scottish YouTuber who goes round like some vigilante hitting back at scammers, can’t remember the channel name thoigh.
posted on 2/4/21
The parcel ones are annoying at first, especially if you order a lot of parcels. The royal mail one's are ridiculous because there's no way they'd email you about a missed parcel as you get the little red slip. The covid vaccine one was almost convincing as it said im classed as vulnerable and my family genetics allign with that so I've been selected. I'm nowhere near vulnerable lol but 2 of my family were classed as vulnerable.
Don't trust anything you receive my email unless its something that you are 100% sure you have purchased recently. If in doubt, google search what you receive and see if that scam has been made aware.
posted on 2/4/21
comment by Vorsprung durch Tuchel (U1641)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Edward Elizabeth Hitler. (U14393)
posted 5 minutes ago
There's the Royal Mail one where they text you and say you have to pay extra for your postage.
Inland Revenue email, they don't send email.
Anyone seen that YouTube channel where he plays along with them using a voice disguise, he accepts there links and then sends them a virus deleting all there files.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Is that the Scottish guy? There’s some popular Scottish YouTuber who goes round like some vigilante hitting back at scammers, can’t remember the channel name thoigh.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Nah his American keeps them on the phone for about 3 hours pretending to be elderly, he had one of them asking him to please give me back my files
posted on 2/4/21
Most common ones I’ve seen recently are the texts pretending to be from banks with fraud warnings. Often they include a bank you don’t have an account with so it’s pretty obvious but can see a lot of people falling into that trap.
Recently had a fraudster attempt to use my debit card to book a holiday to Amsterdam as well. Cheeky cuuntt could have invited me at least
posted on 2/4/21
Had a royal mail one text me yesterday, never had one before
posted on 2/4/21
comment by Geoff Tipps (U1449)
posted 2 hours, 13 minutes ago
3. Email saying that I know your password and Ive got footage of you knocking one out . If you dont pay up the footage is going to your social media contacts. The password was correct but an old one.
——————
And the footage?
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No Footage
posted on 2/4/21
comment by Vorsprung durch Tuchel (U1641)
posted 1 hour, 6 minutes ago
3. Email saying that I know your password and Ive got footage of you knocking one out . If you dont pay up the footage is going to your social media contacts. The password was correct but an old one.
————————
I’ve only just appreciated the slightly scary extent of how easily passwords and usernames are eventually leaked and stored on some deep dark database somewhere. Until very recently I was that guy who used same password for everything..I only realised how vulnerable I was making myself when Apple’s new Keychain features informed me my password and username combos were involved in multiple data leaks (similar, some think even more thorough, service to ‘haveibeenpwned’ website).
Since then have sorted things out with a password manager and just automatically creating and saving some proper da Vinci code passwords whenever signing upto anything particularly ones with financial info/personal info.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Linkedin was the site that had a leak a few years back
posted on 2/4/21
https://haveibeenpwned.com/
posted on 2/4/21
I've had the Royal Mail pay extra one. The Inland Revenue tax refund one and one where I got a voicemail message which said there was a tax fraud associated with my name and to press 1. I didn't. I've also had the Amazon Prime renewal scammer call telling me my prime account is going to renew and to press 1 to cancel. I don't subscribe to it anyway. There used to be a regular Microsoft Windows scammer who tried to gain remote access to my PC because of some ficticious problem they'd found.
posted on 2/4/21
I've had fake hmrc call saying there is a lawsuit against me lol
posted on 2/4/21
I don't know if this scam happens in the UK but this one shocked me on how sophisticated this one was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrKW58MS12g
posted on 2/4/21
comment by Passion Power - Make 1984 fiction again (U8398)
posted 37 minutes ago
I don't know if this scam happens in the UK but this one shocked me on how sophisticated this one was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrKW58MS12g
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Tbf this scam was one of craziest ever, can’t believe so many fell for it
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1UXYMPTdC40
posted on 2/4/21
Information from Cifas:
https://www.cifas.org.uk/coronavirus-fraud-advice
posted on 2/4/21
Almost believed the parcel delivery text because I was expecting a delivery the same day. Said they missed me and I had to change delivery days, clicked link to website that looked identical to Hermes, only stopped believing it when it said you had to pay for redelivery
Keep getting random mobile numbers calling me as well recently, turns out it’s more common now that telemarketers hide their number with mobiles numbers as people are more likely to answer
posted on 2/4/21
This is what they do.
I'm normal hyper-cautious and alert to everything, but I was caught out just before Christmas
We'd been having Wi-Fi problems with Virgin Media, and I ended up posting my questions & findings on their help forum
A few minutes later, I took a call on the landline (part 1 of my failing) and the caller said they from BT and asked if I had been having problems with my internet
#2 failure - I said yes
#3 - I let him dial into my laptop to try and fathom out what was going on (big mistake. HUGE mistake)
He said he need to run some diagnostics and that my screen would go blank, which it did.
Eventually he just disappeared off the line and disconnected from the laptop
Now my suspicions were fully engaged so I ran a full diagnostic & clean up, reset the Wi-Fi password and the Hub password. Luckily, the laptop was only about a month old and didn't have a huge amount of personal data on it, not like my old one!
A couple of days later, I noticed an odd transaction appearing in the "payments awaiting approval" on our company's bank account. Luckily we have 2 factor authorisation and no payment is sanctioned unless approved by a director. But it was something that this git had tried to push through.
Then I remembered - a week or so earlier I had to access this bank account on my own laptop as the work one was down. So they must, somehow have managed to lift by logon details for the company account.
I think I got off lightly
posted on 2/4/21
Wow that was pretty dumb dude.
Never, ever let anyone into your computer if you do t totally trust them. Could have been worse.
posted on 2/4/21
Had a text from a number claiming to be Royal Mail, trying to scam you about undelivered parcels or something , I didnt read it too carefully, just deleted knew it was a scam they are so easy to spot these days
posted on 2/4/21
comment by Keep It Greasy - Music is the BEST (U1396)
posted 1 hour, 38 minutes ago
This is what they do.
I'm normal hyper-cautious and alert to everything, but I was caught out just before Christmas
We'd been having Wi-Fi problems with Virgin Media, and I ended up posting my questions & findings on their help forum
A few minutes later, I took a call on the landline (part 1 of my failing) and the caller said they from BT and asked if I had been having problems with my internet
#2 failure - I said yes
#3 - I let him dial into my laptop to try and fathom out what was going on (big mistake. HUGE mistake)
He said he need to run some diagnostics and that my screen would go blank, which it did.
Eventually he just disappeared off the line and disconnected from the laptop
Now my suspicions were fully engaged so I ran a full diagnostic & clean up, reset the Wi-Fi password and the Hub password. Luckily, the laptop was only about a month old and didn't have a huge amount of personal data on it, not like my old one!
A couple of days later, I noticed an odd transaction appearing in the "payments awaiting approval" on our company's bank account. Luckily we have 2 factor authorisation and no payment is sanctioned unless approved by a director. But it was something that this git had tried to push through.
Then I remembered - a week or so earlier I had to access this bank account on my own laptop as the work one was down. So they must, somehow have managed to lift by logon details for the company account.
I think I got off lightly
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Are you really that dumb?
I have a standard response. I never give any details or access to anyone who phones me even if Im expecting them to call me back.
posted on 2/4/21
comment by The Wonky Kronke (U16927)
posted 1 hour, 30 minutes ago
comment by Keep It Greasy - Music is the BEST (U1396)
posted 1 hour, 38 minutes ago
This is what they do.
I'm normal hyper-cautious and alert to everything, but I was caught out just before Christmas
We'd been having Wi-Fi problems with Virgin Media, and I ended up posting my questions & findings on their help forum
A few minutes later, I took a call on the landline (part 1 of my failing) and the caller said they from BT and asked if I had been having problems with my internet
#2 failure - I said yes
#3 - I let him dial into my laptop to try and fathom out what was going on (big mistake. HUGE mistake)
He said he need to run some diagnostics and that my screen would go blank, which it did.
Eventually he just disappeared off the line and disconnected from the laptop
Now my suspicions were fully engaged so I ran a full diagnostic & clean up, reset the Wi-Fi password and the Hub password. Luckily, the laptop was only about a month old and didn't have a huge amount of personal data on it, not like my old one!
A couple of days later, I noticed an odd transaction appearing in the "payments awaiting approval" on our company's bank account. Luckily we have 2 factor authorisation and no payment is sanctioned unless approved by a director. But it was something that this git had tried to push through.
Then I remembered - a week or so earlier I had to access this bank account on my own laptop as the work one was down. So they must, somehow have managed to lift by logon details for the company account.
I think I got off lightly
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Are you really that dumb?
I have a standard response. I never give any details or access to anyone who phones me even if Im expecting them to call me back.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
On this one, solitary occasion I was dumb
And I'm always the first in my peer group to waffle on about internet security
But it was SO plausible, having just been on a forum discussing the exact situation this guy *said* he could fix
posted on 2/4/21
Scams always seem dumb when recounting it. Doesn’t change that even savvy and cautious people can fall victim to them sometimes.
posted on 3/4/21
There is the account has been suspended scam
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