Fake Boots scam

[Mercdriver]

I have just won, allegedly, an electric toothbrush by answering a simple question like what are your bank details etc.

I can unsubscribe from further e mails by contacting someone in California.

Yeh, right, oh do p1$$ off

[Cockaigne]

it will be cookies being tracked from your web browsing.

[Mercdriver]

Cookies blocked and cleared out regularly, not a boots customer? Apple I pad safari blocks trackers it tells me.

Wonder if it is connected to Venice and Amsterdam airport free internet?

[cobra kid]

So it's not a scam from Boots then?

[Funk]

How do some people still not understand how spam happens?

OP - it's nothing to do with your browser or cookies. Or Boots. It's just auto-generated spam in the hopes you'll divulge card info which can then be used/sold on on the dark web.

Just do what the rest of us do - read the title, realise it's spam and delete/block.

[SHutchinson]

OP, when you bought the scam generic tablet in Tenerife with the illegal TV app, did you give them your email address at the same time?

[POIDH]

Funk said:

How do some people still not understand how spam happens?

OP - it's nothing to do with your browser or cookies. Or Boots. It's just auto-generated spam in the hopes you'll divulge card info which can then be used/sold on on the dark web.

Just do what the rest of us do - read the title, realise it's spam and delete/block.

And if you click through you have just confirmed your email address to the scammers, even before you enter any more information. Prepare to be even more innundated.

Best thing is to not click on it at all - on outlook you can right click and report as spam or phishing.

[Randy Winkman]

Badly worded thread title in my view. Might give the wrong impression to a casual viewer.

[Mercdriver]

SHutchinson said:

OP, when you bought the scam generic tablet in Tenerife with the illegal TV app, did you give them your email address at the same time?

Definitely not! But thanks for thinking of that, appreciated.

[Jordie Barretts sock]

SHutchinson said:

OP, when you bought the scam generic tablet in Tenerife with the illegal TV app, did you give them your email address at the same time?

Hahaha. I'd forgotten that.

Open to a bit of scamming OP?

[Cockaigne]

SHutchinson said:

OP, when you bought the scam generic tablet in Tenerife with the illegal TV app, did you give them your email address at the same time?

if he bought a generic Chinese tablet it will be monitoring his usage.

[Your Dad]

OP might wish to see if his email address has been divulged from a data breach:

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

And before anyone suggests, above site is not designed to harvest email addresses.

[mac96]

These are generally easily spotted by spelling oddities and the originating address not being connected with the purported sender. Block delete and move on.

[Mercdriver]

Thanks for the tip Dad, pwned on my heritage website

Thanks for reminding me of Tenerife, gave it away to heart foundation. Trying hard to forget it,


Tend not to get scam e mails, not on Facebook twitter or any of these sites as I consider them a scammers to do list so I would guess difficult to get any info on me?

[Magnum 475]

My old email address was one of those hacked from google in the early days of gmail. I'm gradually moving everything off it, because on a daily basis:

- I win 5 toothbrushes from Boots
- have 2 to 5 packages with delayed delivery
- Amazon try to send me a free council-sized Samsung TV (2 or 3 times daily)
- My PC gets infected by 32 viruses (I don't own a PC)
- My iCloud storage is full and all my photos will be deleted (2 or 3 times daily)

You get the idea.

I went for years with almost zero spam mail, but in the last few months it's gone crazy.

As soon as I've migrated my last few real-world things off my gmail address it will get turned off for mail - but I'll be keeping the google drive function as it's a useful place to back up files.

[cobra kid]

Magnum 475 said:

My old email address was one of those hacked from google in the early days of gmail. I'm gradually moving everything off it, because on a daily basis:

- I win 5 toothbrushes from Boots
- have 2 to 5 packages with delayed delivery
- Amazon try to send me a free council-sized Samsung TV (2 or 3 times daily)
- My PC gets infected by 32 viruses (I don't own a PC)
- My iCloud storage is full and all my photos will be deleted (2 or 3 times daily)

You get the idea.

I went for years with almost zero spam mail, but in the last few months it's gone crazy.

As soon as I've migrated my last few real-world things off my gmail address it will get turned off for mail - but I'll be keeping the google drive function as it's a useful place to back up files.

Everything on a phone then?

[Magnum 475]

cobra kid said:

Everything on a phone then?

Macs / iPads. So no “PC”, and messages pretend to be from McAfee!

[deckster]

Mercdriver said:

Tend not to get scam e mails, not on Facebook twitter or any of these sites as I consider them a scammers to do list so I would guess difficult to get any info on me?

Facebook, Twitter etc. are very unlikely to be sources for scam/spam emails simply because they are very good at protecting their prime income source, which is your data. They might use your data for their own purposes, but they aren't going to leak it to anybody else without them being paid for it, which the scammers tend not to do.

[Mercdriver]

Getting inundated with the macafee scams too, you computer is infected . Please send money, don’t know what these are cause safari blocks them and sends to scam folder.
Very persistent too.