A Long Beach couple received what looked like an email from a neighbor asking for help. Then came the request for gift cards.
A Highland Park man, who says he hasn’t smoked for 25 years, was told by Hertz to pay a $400 fee after workers claimed they smelled cigarettes.While hacking the email account of the Supples’ neighbor demonstrates a modicum of tech savviness, the grammatical errors in the second email show that the hacker isn’t exactly a criminal mastermind.
The FTC says con artists know people are very vulnerable and emotional because of the pandemic, and that this may lead some potential victims to lower the guard.that particularly abusive fraudsters were targeting family members of people who had died of COVID-19, offering help in paying funeral expenses.run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency that provides up to $9,000 in COVID-related funeral costs. But FEMA will never call you out of the blue.
The call almost always is bogus and will lead to elaborate steps to separate you from your money either by purchasing gift cards or making a wire transfer. A Pasadena manI’ve also been hearing from a number of readers about phony offers to help secure inheritance cash. I wrote about this racket after a San Fernando Valley resident was told he couldAs with claims that you’ve just won a lottery or sweepstakes, it’s highly unlikely a total stranger bequeathed you a mountain of money.
The FTC says caller ID won’t necessarily protect you; numbers can be faked using a technique known asThe agency also advises checking the legitimacy of any “official” caller by saying you’ll call back. Use the number you find online, not the one the caller gives you.
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