A Warning to protect .
 

A Warning to Protect . . .

We recently lost my wife’s dear brother who’d come to live with us for the last seven months. He died suddenly in her arms as she was feeding him his evening meal. He is a marine, a combat Viet vet assigned to escorting assault tanks. At one time he owned his own business. He died almost penniless and this is what we want to share with you so you can be vigilant with your friends and relatives.

He fell victim to what is commonly referred to as the Nigerian Money Scheme. Not sure why or how (he was a bright guy/but elderly). I gone through phones and papers to find out that he’d sent them since 2016 nearly $100,000 in money cards of various amounts. It’s tragic, they hounded his phone even past his death. I’ve spoken with a few of these ruthless bastards but they are untraceable and law enforcement local and federal really doesn’t give a damn.

Please watch out for unusual business or banking activity, frequent phone calls from all over the country etc. Anyone needing more information about this scam feel free to private message me or drop me a note at Mjvinesauthor@gmail.com . So I don't take up to much space on the board. We never thought it could happen to one of ours.

Thanks guys/gals just wanted to share.
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I'm sorry for your family's loss Mike. It's gotten to the point with scammers that if I don't recognize the number then I don't even answer the phone.

I've programmed my phone to ignore all calls from numbers not saved to my contacts. Yep, it can be a pain; but well-worth the idiocy of thieves.

So sorry to hear about your loss and so sad that scammers were able to cheat him of his money

Beware of this scam, a while back I received a call saying they were BBT bank and said someone was trying to withdrawel $2000 at an ATM in Fla, I explained that I was in Tennessee so the guy asked me to give him my card number to verify it was me , I told him no that he didn't need my card number to verify, he then said look on the back of my card and I will see the number he is calling from is the number of the bank and it was, I then told him I would call them right back , he said no that I had to give him my card number now or he was going to let the transaction go through , I knew at that moment it was a scam, I immediately hung up and called my bank and they said that scam has been very effective because they are spoofing numbers making them appear as any number they want

Glad they called me and not my wife because she would have bit hook line and sinker lol

Truly Sorry for your loss.


I keep getting Netfilx e-mails that look totally legit but it says
I need to update my credit card or I will be permanently banned.

It has Netflix header and all but the link is really fishy

Yep !! <'TK><
 

The only time you need to update is if you change banks or card number. Also, no company in their right mind would permanently ban a paying customer unless they were doing something that cost them money.




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