Usually I see the same products on the internet mostly at a similar price but sometimes there is an identical product at ten or more times the price sold by a company I've never heard of. Is this some kind of scam? It seems to happen too often to be a typo
They pretend to sell exotic seeds from Africa, but are located in Latvia and either never send anything or only send some random seeds, not the expensive rare ones advertised.
There a a lot of other reports about them on the internet, I don’t know how they are still operational.
Had a text message from Wickes saying that they had my parcel for delivery if I log onto a link and pay charges. The message is from a genuine wickes site that I've had messages from before but this time I've never ordered anything
One that is astonishingly common here is the wood pellet site (there are loads) which purports to sell a pallet of pellets for maybe €300 with a buy-two-get-one-free offer. Given the current prices is around €10 per 15kg bag and pallets are either 65 or 72 bags... well just too obviously good to be true. These sites have no contact details and only accept bank transfer payments. To me it's obvious they're scams but given how people are struggling with their heating bills and also given how difficult pellets have been to get hold of, some are falling for it. I've heard of at least 3 people who have handed over hundreds and, in one case, over a thousand and got nothing.
Then a different one. I got an email from Paypal the other day confirming a payment request from someone I'd never heard of, for €599 or something. My initial response was that it was a fake email but no, hovering over the links etc, it was a genuine PayPal email. I logged on and yes, there it was, a payment request from an unknown person. I cancelled it and also called PayPal, who confirmed that it had been stopped. She wasn't sure but she thought such cases would be followed up for fraud. I should hope so!
What shook me, though, was that it seems anyone can send through a request for payment, a bit like sending an invoice. Make sure it's true before you confirm if you get one.
From fake job opportunities to dodgy cryptocurrency schemes, fraudsters are using WhatsApp to coax victims into handing over their money and personal details.
"Never click on any links in unsolicited WhatsApp messages. You can report the message by selecting it in your conversation list and tapping ‘report’. To report the sender on WhatsApp, open up the chat, tap on the sender's contact details and select 'Block and Report'."
We had an email from someone who reckoned that our payment for car tax hadn't gone through so could we pay again. It was so bad that even I sussed it. My OH was even faster cos he knew car tax was Nov and this is Jan.
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Is this some kind of scam? It seems to happen too often to be a typo
https://africa-seeds.com/
https://www.which.co.uk/news/article/five-banking-scams-to-watch-out-for-in-2023-aTBql8q5k1ns?utm_medium=email&utm_source=engagingnetworks&utm_campaign=supporters&utm_content=Scam+alert+120123
"Five banking scams to watch out for in 2023"
1. Money mule requests
2. Card theft and ‘shoulder surfing’4. Calls and texts from ‘your bank’
3. Fake apps that target your bank account
4. Calls and texts from ‘your bank’
5. Online purchase scams
Then a different one. I got an email from Paypal the other day confirming a payment request from someone I'd never heard of, for €599 or something. My initial response was that it was a fake email but no, hovering over the links etc, it was a genuine PayPal email. I logged on and yes, there it was, a payment request from an unknown person. I cancelled it and also called PayPal, who confirmed that it had been stopped. She wasn't sure but she thought such cases would be followed up for fraud. I should hope so!
What shook me, though, was that it seems anyone can send through a request for payment, a bit like sending an invoice. Make sure it's true before you confirm if you get one.
"Never click on any links in unsolicited WhatsApp messages. You can report the message by selecting it in your conversation list and tapping ‘report’. To report the sender on WhatsApp, open up the chat, tap on the sender's contact details and select 'Block and Report'."