Scams

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What kind of scams have you been involved in?

How much $$$ did you lose?

How has the scan affected you psychologically and financially?

I get texts and calls every day trying to scam me out of money. USPS package arrived, UPS package arrived, Fedex, etc. You just have to click on this link to get your package. No thanks. Also, political bait: share your indignation against Trump, tell the Democrats what you think, support abortion, support this, support that.

If you get texts from unknown source - report as junk. Do not react.
If you get calls from unknown number, or number identified, but you did not initiate the call - block. Do not react.

I started getting a lot more of these scam calls after I shared my phone number with a lady I met in the park. I think she was a big noodlehead and her phone was hacked and all her contacts harvested.

I fell for that one but quickly realized my error and was able to freeze my credit card and get a replacement card before any purchases were made.

I enjoy keeping phone scammers on the line as long as possible.
Eventually they either twig, or call me stupid and hang up
I like when a fake microsoft agent wants to initiate a remote session and I pretend to read out a popup "backtrace complete.. please wait at your desk, your security officer will be there shortly"

I hate how everyone including AARP thinks that "people our age" (another annoying generic stereotyping) are nothing but ignorant senile scambait with one foot in the grave and the other foot in bankruptcy court.

Good thing.

I am extremely skeptical of any phone call, email or text these days. There is a TON of fraud going on. Really bad actors. AI and voice simulation will just make the problem worse. They can, today, call up sounding like someone you know. You would not know that you are talking to a computer.