Cancel the card, get a new one, and tell the credit card company that you have told them to stop billing-you might be able to get the charges reversed
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tznred
I also received an email alert from ICM. Likewise, I did not open it, but I Google and Wikipedia those initials, ICM. Here are the links that came up among others:
Lots of others say it is a scam. I can see how enticing it is to open if you are writer, actor, etc. They have a way of following what you are into, your web pages and searches. I am a writer, but I will NOT open those emails.
Even if is legit, I think there is a better way than sending numerous spams every day, all day. Like, they think I am going to change my mind on email number 1,000.
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danamany
Always be very careful of email you get, many programs, I use outlook 2010, have a preview pane that does not affect the opening of the email, but even if you don't, read the subject line closely and ask yourself if it is from someone you know, would that person have sent this to you. If you think about it, often times you will come up with the answer "NO" they would not have, if your still unsure, its worth a phone call to that person rather than putting a virus or entering in person info that you don't know where it will go online. Never ever, ever, ever ever ever, give out name or personal information online unless you are truly sure of the source. You can likely trust your bank and the big box stores as they spend millions to protect and encrypt information to at least 128 bit if not more.
If your going to use your email address to put in someplace, better to create a 2nd account and let the spam go to that one and only use your real one for those you expressly trust. Though many companies do sell email addresses as a form of profit for them as well, they may say they don't, but what is to really stop them. Heck, even though Craig's list masks them, they still know what it is and could sell them. You reply to a political add for something regardless of affiliation. You think they won't sell it to raise money for their cause !!!
You have to be extra careful anymore these days, internet is great for many things, but it also gives people, and not always those with your best interest at heart, a backdoor into your life... often times easier than you think...
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JuJu
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BackgroundRep@seenewscanresults.us> mine came from that email
Owner Country : United States Website Location : United States Notes:- [Alert Result] ** The website appears to be OFFLINE ** (Red Flag 2) [Alert Result] This website is 0 Days old [Alert Result] The website expected life (364 days) is relatively short.
Diagnosis: So the site hasn't been up for a day and appears to be offline...can you say 'reeks of scam'?
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danamany
I get these "someone has completed a background check on you" about 10x a day in my email box. Just keep deleting them folks. It is Phishing email. Somoene out there wants something and sure enough somebody will unknowingly give them what they want, don't let it be you. I'd like to believe that at least 8/10 people have a pretty good idea nowadays when an email is a scam or at least not legite just by looking at it. Gosh I've had so much over the years, the garbage barely ever gets past me. I work online and customers send me emails daily up to 100-150 emails a day. There are times when the name on the email is a colleague or co worker, but I've come to even look at the email address and its not there's. They think if you see a common name you'll open it. TRY AGAIN bonehead ! Now they are even making emails look identical to Facebook emails, but if you look at the email or link posted, it says something like "selfies" which dictates pictures. Don't open them, probably pornographic or virus related. If you want to keep your email address, it just means a little more work and recognition on your part. I keep using mine, just be mindful and learn the habits of those who do send you email. Always remember if anyone asks for any sort of person information, even if you do know the name of the sender, your better off calling them on the phone and asking them "did you need that information?" 9/10x they will say "WHAT ? " The only place online that will legitimately ask for that info is if you yourself go looking for something to buy or a bank application or mortgage to fill out, but your the person need to be initiating the search too. No business legite business out there is going to come looking for your personal info. That is your first tip off its a scam, if you did not initiate the transaction yourself at some point. Stay Frosty people !!! the evildooers are everywhere...
The introling.us domain was created on 8/1/2014. Yesterday. The domain name will expire on 7/31/15 ... in a year. Such short durations are typical of spoofs or scams.
No web page ... just a page where you could unsubscribe from their emails. Very suspicious!
I think it might have been set up as a spoof ... just to cause consternation. One way to defend yourself against unknown, malicious email attacks is to get email ONLY in text format. Do not receive HTML emails. HTML emails could contain a payload ... but text format emails are limited to plain text.
Without further info from you, we cannot make any more intelligent guesses.
Ya- it really is. They already HAD my email address so why prompt me to attempt in providing it again under false pretense to unsubscribe.
If I could upload the screenshot, I could further request your opinion on the almost random lengthy blurb near bottom. Parts seemed to be cut and pasted from an article discussing a particular case in history involving property owners filing suit against individuals carrying weapons onto their land. I couldnt identify the sources of the other blurbs. If it was all random, it appeared to take some time.
And so, again, for what intent? Had I been on my pc at the time, maybe I could detect some weird stuff directly related to this incident.
I'm concerned though because, im not a total novice to puters and have a l33t background of friends and ... my pc HAS been doing some weird stuff. I've scanned and nothing. Ran malware and keylogging detection programs, tested and retested, shrug. I had my firewall down for 3 days so a bit paranoid when I open chrome and the home tab image is tiled across and vertically on my screen or folders i havent opened are flashing open long enough for me to say "wtf...?!" and then closing again.
System activity logs dont show anything other than my actions.
My cell and pc share wifi.
Sorry for the psuedo-pedantic blah-blah. Should I swipe ?
If you're using Windows Firewall that can be a problem. There are free anti-virus/firewall programs out there-if you're interested, I can give you the name for the one I have been using
OK, we have learned a long time ago this was spam. I see this coming through on a daily basis. How do we stop this from coming in our email. We have a Cisco based Spam firewall that works very well, but for some reason, these aren't seem as spam......
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