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Got ya!

I know know you’re all here to see how I’ve messed up and bathe in my misery, but luckily for me I’m not brain dead.

Selling a laptop on Facebook market place, and had a message saying:

“Ok I take but I would like to come tomorrow but I am currently busy with work, I will send a Budbee mailman to your home to give you your money in cash collect the item.
I explain, a Budbee agent will come to your home to give you an envelope containing your money, and once you fer have verified your en amoney you give him the article so that he can send it to my home ok .”

So ocuk, give me some address suggestions for where to send this budbee agent for maximum laughs and maximum time wastage for this scammer!

My first idea was Joris Bohnson who happens to live at the NCA headquarters in London, but show me your best!
 
No mailman is coming to your home to give you money and collect the article.

If you respond to the scam the scammer will ask you to pay insurance upfront. Once scammer has got this it will be the last you hear from them.
 
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Why do people fall for these blatantly obvious scams?

I mean I recognise the OP hasn't, hence then thread but it must work some of the time else they wouldn't bother right? There should be a public service that tests people on the internet with scam tactics like these. You fail, you're banned from the internet permanently. The internet was great when you needed a modicum of intelligence to get on it. "Access for all" was it's downfall.
 
This happened to me recently, but I sent a box of **** and told the courier to drop it off somewhere in Stroud.
 
Resident said:
Why do people fall for these blatantly obvious scams?

I mean I recognise the OP hasn't, hence then thread but it must work some of the time else they wouldn't bother right? There should be a public service that tests people on the internet with scam tactics like these. You fail, you're banned from the internet permanently. The internet was great when you needed a modicum of intelligence to get on it. "Access for all" was it's downfall.
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We get tested at work. Ironically they send an email out from an external domain telling you there is a pending course to take on "keeping data safe", etc. which you'd normally do through the company portal - clicking on the link takes you to a fake page which looks like the Sharepoint login.

Problem is probably 80% of staff if they even read their emails regularly won't even bother doing a course until it is overdue and asked by their team leader anyhow so it isn't that accurate a gauge. But even though it is sent out repeated, though infrequently, still about 60% of people who actively engage with their emails will enter their login details!
 
Update, I think I got susses out when I told them that I will send details later and they've stopped replying :(

@Resident, obviously it will never happen but I do miss the 2000's internet before everyone was using it and before social media, was such a friendlier and more interesting place!
 
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We get tested at work. Ironically they send an email out from an external domain telling you there is a pending course to take on "keeping data safe", etc. which you'd normally do through the company portal - clicking on the link takes you to a fake page which looks like the Sharepoint login.

Problem is probably 80% of staff if they even read their emails regularly won't even bother doing a course until it is overdue and asked by their team leader anyhow so it isn't that accurate a gauge. But even though it is sent out repeated, though infrequently, still about 60% of people who actively engage with their emails will enter their login details!
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I used to work for Vodafone. I left in 2017. A senior IT manager emailed me, to my personal and not work email, an access link to the shared Google drive whilst I was there. I had full read/write access from my PERSONAL Google account with that link.

It's now over 5 years ago that email was sent. That link STILL works. No-one ever removed me from the access list.
 
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That's mad. There's a good episode on Darknet Diaries about people stealing tablets from mobile phone stores along with login credentials for managers so they can quickly sim swap customers they're trying to target, in order to access the customers 2FA codes and break into their crypto wallets. Some US carriers have better security than others, so I think it ranged from something like $5k - $15k and maybe even up to $50k for a sim swap on the carriers with the best security .
 
Resident said:
I used to work for Vodafone. I left in 2017. A senior IT manager emailed me, to my personal and not work email, an access link to the shared Google drive whilst I was there. I had full read/write access from my PERSONAL Google account with that link.

It's now over 5 years ago that email was sent. That link STILL works. No-one ever removed me from the access list.
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Haha reminds me of when I left a job at a high street chain store over 10 years ago. I still had access to the company systems long after I left, hosted GMail, Drive, plus some other things. If they hadn't gone bust I'd probably still have access today. :cry:
 
Rroff said:
We get tested at work. Ironically they send an email out from an external domain telling you there is a pending course to take on "keeping data safe", etc. which you'd normally do through the company portal - clicking on the link takes you to a fake page which looks like the Sharepoint login.

Problem is probably 80% of staff if they even read their emails regularly won't even bother doing a course until it is overdue and asked by their team leader anyhow so it isn't that accurate a gauge. But even though it is sent out repeated, though infrequently, still about 60% of people who actively engage with their emails will enter their login details!
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Sounds like a great way to troll your coworkers, by putting their email address in the fake page (preferably that of the IT manager) :cry:
 
My father was recently given a return address for an Amazon reseller. Would you believe the address they gave him:

221B Baker Street. London.

Fortunately he knew Gerry Rafferty lived there.
 
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