Want to sponsor a post, write something for Your Mileage May Vary or put ads on our site? Click here for more info. Want to comment on this post? Great! Read this first to help ensure it gets approved. Some are pretty convincing but it’s been a while since I got one that was this bad. I’ve gotten many of these types of emails. Bogus cures and testing kits being sold on websites. Information about local coronavirus infections being sold over phone calls by phony research organisations. They’re easy to find if you just Google the company name and spoof email. Here are a few examples of the types of fraud and scams being committed at the moment: Fines, rebates and payment requests sent as texts from fake government accounts. If you’re sure you can do so safely, forward it to the bank/business/whatever’s fraud dept. If you want to be safe, just delete it immediately. Whatever you do, if you receive an email like this, don’t click on anything. I forwarded the email to Capital One’s fraud department. I did what any responsible person would do. When I hovered over the sender of the email, here was the email address I found.Ĭuz that definitely looks like an email that would come from Capital One. Then there was the bottom of the email where you’d expect to see a link to unsubscribe but instead, there was this: The repeating of “exclusive” is also a tell that this is not real. I would think that a real email would use the actual Capital One logo, but they opted to just use boldface type for one part and italics for the second half of the name. Spell the bank wrong and two lazy keying errors and I’m one line in. The errors started right off with the subject line of the email. Still, the level of ineptitude of this email was stunning. However, with the introduction of the Venture X, there’s a new pool of Capital One customers who would not be surprised to receive an email from their nee bank. I’m bringing this topic back because when I first wrote about this, many people may have never considered getting a card from Capital One. Then there’s the one I received that claimed to be from Capital One. They said it was not one of their numbers. I called and the back ground noise did not sound right so I call capital one number on the back of the card. Some of these emails are very well done, with graphics and text that look just like the real thing. Received call saying it was capital one fraud department. Obviously, the purpose of these emails is to trick people into giving their login information to a nefarious character who can then sell it on the dark web or try any number of other sites to see if you’ve used the same login info for your bank, credit report and whatever else is on the net. In other words, an email from a hacker that looks just like one from your bank, that tells you to click on a link to confirm your purchase by logging into your account. In the internet age, the term has come to mean any email from a fraudulent source pretending to be from another source.
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