Another trick that scammers use
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (341752)
Rockingham, Australia
January 25, 2023 12:35am CST
The photo has nothing to do with the post, except that there appears to be two suns and, of course, there is only one.
The lifestyle village where we now live has its own Facebook page. Sometimes information and tips are put up. I was impressed with the latest one which was in relation to scammers who ask you to click on a link.
Two sites were put up as examples but I can’t seem to duplicate them here. Both said ‘citibank.com’ but in one, the letter ‘a’ was a cyrillic ‘a’. When I insert a cyrillic ‘a’ in this text, I can’t see any difference.
I was hard pushed to pick out any difference in the two examples which is, I guess, what the scammers are hoping for. However, after looking carefully, I could see that the two ‘a’s were different.
Just another example of what to look for and how careful we need to be before clicking on any links.
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13 responses
@GoAskAlice (5827)
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25 Jan 23
Here - you should have used something like this for your discussion photo to show the difference in the 'a' used.
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@RebeccasFarm (90294)
• Arvada, Colorado
26 Jan 23
Oh it is so deadly online these days. So tricky indeed.
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@LeaPea2417 (37369)
• Toccoa, Georgia
25 Jan 23
Yes, it is scary how scammers always come up with something new to try to deceive people.
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@thelme55 (77168)
• Germany
25 Jan 23
Thank you for sharing. I am not aware of the difference until I read the comment of @GoAskAlice.
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@BloggerDi (3113)
• United States
25 Jan 23
It seems that scammers are getting more sophisticated with their deceitful tricks! 
Why don't they use their knowledge of technology to get a legitimate job?
Thanks for the tips. I love the beautiful photo too.
Why don't they use their knowledge of technology to get a legitimate job?
Thanks for the tips. I love the beautiful photo too.1 person likes this
@BarBaraPrz (47618)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
25 Jan 23
I saw that yesterday on my own fb feed.
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@snowy22315 (181956)
• United States
25 Jan 23
That is an unusual photo. Sometimes it seems 90 percent of my email are scams. I ignore the majority.
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@FourWalls (68884)
• United States
25 Jan 23
I have a very simple way around it: I don’t open them anymore. My accounts will always use my name and say “account ending in xxxx” when they’re legitimate. Oh, and there’s usually not 40 spelling/grammatical errors in the first sentence. 
The IRS and the Social Security Administration have repeatedly stated they will NEVER call or e-mail you asking for money. And I don’t care how “professional” they try to make a Wells Fargo e-mail look, I know that I don’t have a Wells Fargo account.
I love JJ’s video of him playing the the phone scammers. I did that once…guy claimed he ws calling from Windows to “check my computer,” and I led him on for about 10 minutes. Finally he said, “You’re sure you hae your computer on? What does it say?” I replied, “APPLE, you scammer! I don’t have a PC!!”
The IRS and the Social Security Administration have repeatedly stated they will NEVER call or e-mail you asking for money. And I don’t care how “professional” they try to make a Wells Fargo e-mail look, I know that I don’t have a Wells Fargo account.
I love JJ’s video of him playing the the phone scammers. I did that once…guy claimed he ws calling from Windows to “check my computer,” and I led him on for about 10 minutes. Finally he said, “You’re sure you hae your computer on? What does it say?” I replied, “APPLE, you scammer! I don’t have a PC!!” 1 person likes this
@LindaOHio (181321)
• United States
25 Jan 23
Really cool photo. Thanks for the scammer tips. They are getting really sophisticated with their methods.
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