RoadRunner Scam
Dec 19, 2020 12:14:31 #
rdemarco52 wrote:
People must bite on these calls because they keep coming.
I wonder how many do this ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MHDDSekvcE
Dec 19, 2020 12:29:38 #
Leo_B
Loc: Houston suburb
SAVH wrote:
I have read several times that studies show these scammers get a positive response almost one to two percent of the time. Sad to think that there are that many gullible people out there. Somebody must be following up as there seems to be no end to the efforts to scam our money.
Scotty
Scotty
Amazing it isn't higher when you consider gullibility and how people vote.
Dec 19, 2020 13:05:09 #
truckster wrote:
Did this with the Microsoft Tech Support scam where you could talk directly with the scammer. Played dumb, questioned everything, missed keystrokes as they instructed me and finally up to the point of hitting the return key to download and run their destructive malware, my computer crashed (not really though). I had them hanging on while I told them my computer was rebooting. Well, of course, since I had a buggy computer, it had to take a long time to reboot. Then the process started all over again, missing instructions from the scammer, questioning everything and finally as I was supposed to hit the return key to download their malware, my computer just happened to crash again. They finally caught on to my game and bid me farewell with a few nasty superlatives and hung up. I kept them on the line for about 15 minutes. Saw something similar on youtube, tried it and had a lot of fun with them.
Dec 19, 2020 16:11:12 #
Dec 19, 2020 16:46:22 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I got an email supposedly from RoadRunner asking me to give them my payment information or they would halt my service. The email came from vhinkle@ma.rr.com.
Really came from Wiley Coyote.
Dec 19, 2020 21:02:40 #
SAVH wrote:
I have read several times that studies show these scammers get a positive response almost one to two percent of the time. Sad to think that there are that many gullible people out there. Somebody must be following up as there seems to be no end to the efforts to scam our money.
Scotty
Scotty
At 1 to 2% of the people falling for these scams, that translates to a large number of people who quite likely lose a couple thousand dollars to maybe 100s of thousands of dollars. That means a lot of money going to the scammers. Unfortunately that means the crooks are getting a large amount of money which makes their scam profitable to them. A recent AARP Magazine had an article about a guy who was a scam artist and he revealed many of the tricks employed by the bad guys. It was quite interesting.
Dec 20, 2020 01:36:06 #
Virgil
Loc: The Hoosier State
I've been getting one from PayPa1 saying my account has been suspended, please.......
Dec 20, 2020 13:06:17 #
At least the Prince of Nigeria is not hounding you to cash a check for him...
Dec 20, 2020 14:17:52 #
jerryc41 wrote:
I got an email supposedly from RoadRunner asking me to give them my payment information or they would halt my service. The email came from vhinkle@ma.rr.com.
Don't send the info. Hope I'm not too late with this advice.
Dec 27, 2020 10:26:53 #
Virgil wrote:
I've been getting one from PayPa1 saying my account has been suspended, please.......
Get them all the time ... I don't have a Paypal account.
Dec 28, 2020 10:07:24 #
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