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Old 04-19-2013, 01:22 PM
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I have gotten 3 emails this week supposedly from American Airlines telling me to download the plane ticket I (supposedly) bought to use it. The flights were to Phoenix, Ontario, and Aurora to be used on April 23, 25, and 29--all late evening flights and paid for by credit card. I checked with my credit card co and nothing has been charged to my card as of today. I did not download anything and hope it saved me from getting scammed. I tried sending a seperate email to the sender but it came back as undeliverable. BEWARE AND KEEP THE DELETE BUTTON HANDY.
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Old 04-19-2013, 07:28 PM
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Got another one tonight--now I'm going to Toledo---wonder where else I'm going to go!!!!
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Old 04-19-2013, 08:02 PM
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That goes along with the Fedex scam. You get an e-mail saying a package was undeliverable or something like that and they need your info in order to deliver it. General rule of thumb....if it looks too good to be true and/or you know you haven't ordered/bought anything, delete, delete, delete.
Hubby once got an e-mail from a bank stating something about a savings account. He asked me about it and asked him...do you remember us EVER banking with that bank? Well, he got his answer. Now he just deletes them. I get all credit/bank/whatever info to my account, not his.
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Old 04-19-2013, 08:13 PM
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I got one today saying I was a member of Ruby's Diner and to down load the coupons for a free something. Just out of curiosity I went to the website of Ruby's Diner to see what their contact info was and it was no where close to the one in the e-mail so I just deleted it. I thought I had signed up for something when I was in there last but that was well over 2 months ago, and it didn't have the typical .com or .net. We need to be careful!
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Old 04-19-2013, 08:28 PM
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I got one yesterday telling me that I needed to send some information for updating my PayPal acct. I called Paypal and the gal told me that it was a scam, my acct was good and then I deleted it and she said I should forward it to her. I said sorry done gone. If it comes again I will be forwarding it. I too have been getting a lot of emails about tickets purchased with my credit card and needed to download the ticket. also a bunch from Fed Ex. All scams, Fed Ex leaves a ticket hung on my door if it needs a signature. It also helps that my local Fed Ex guy calls me when he has a pkg to deliver to me. sometimes we meet in Stanley if he doesn't have any other deliveries out my way. Saves him time and he can get home early.
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Old 04-19-2013, 08:29 PM
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I have had Fedex and Airline tickets emails, they go straight to my spam box - don't ever open them as they can contain a virus or so I have been told
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Old 04-19-2013, 08:32 PM
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I wonder if they come from our address on this site. I have a few addresses that I use in various places and have been getting this same airline message to the address used here. Didn't open it, as I knew I hadn't placed an order.
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Old 04-21-2013, 05:00 AM
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That's a major shop hop they have going ;-) glad you caught it
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Old 04-21-2013, 06:12 AM
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Got one to I called my bank and put an alert on my acct. Not going any where. I have overdraft protection so if they tried to ,it would have gone through.I wonder if its connecting threads. I still get popups on my phone saying not a secure site
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Old 04-21-2013, 06:23 AM
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Remember you can always block them so that you don't get those annoying fisher emails. So frustrating when they come into your inbox.
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