Post #1600795

Sneaky scammer is sneaky! I got an email from my financial institution for a financial transaction. The subject line said "Pending charge" for almost $1000 dollars, but the transaction itself was a very small payment to me. So I went to the financial outfit's website to check the transaction. I was expecting it *NOT* to be there, but it was. I double-checked the email. All the links were to my financial institution and the phone number inside the mail was correct for the institution. However, it had a different phone number in the subject line. I reported the transaction. Here is what I suppose the scenario went like in the scammer's mind: "I'm going to give the smallest sum I can to my marks. Being the upstanding citizens that they are, or being scared by the 'pending charge' I'm putting in the subject line, they are going to call the number in the subject line to report that I erroneously gave them money. I answer, and scam them. Yay!" #scammers #scams