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I imagine most of us have a job where we have to monitor emails and or phones.
That is actually my main job. I have to monitor emails from various systems when people have questions and from phone calls. Some glorified help desk if you will.
I have seen many of the fake email scams over the years, as many have.
Even red some stories of people messing with the scammers just to have fun.
http://www.419eater.com/html/joe_eboh.htm is a site where you can read about some scammers getting scammed when you are bored and need a laugh.
A year or so ago we had an issue with ransomware. One of the ladies in our work was not really paying attention to her emails and was clicking on links where she just should have deleted the emails. After they did a history of all of the emails that had this issue in it, they said I got most of them but I was smart enough just to delete them. Well it only took one lady to click on the emails and the links from within and the company had to pay money to ransomware to get our stuff back.
A rough lesson to learn from something some simple as to not open up and click on links if you don't know who it is from.
Now everyone is getting those stupid phone calls about getting free government grants and trying to sign you up. I get them so often at work and on my cell that I start repeating their spiel to them before they can start to do it on me. In which case they curse a bit and hang up.
But the part that is interesting to me is that they used to come from phone numbers that were foreign countries. Now some are coming with the listing of a State. Well most times I know if they are from states that we don't usually have business or I know someone from...I know what it is.
However not only are they using your home states now...sometimes they use numbers of local businesses in your area even some home numbers.
I called back a couple of numbers just to mess with them when I was bored and it went to a local business or a persons home and you could clearly tell they did not know what was going on but were getting calls from other people complaining about them when they did nothing.
Pretty crappy now that some ordinary joe's phone number is being used on the caller ID and he is getting yelled at for someone else doing this crap.
Really would love to find a way to get rid of some of these people doing the calls but it seems like it is not going to change anytime soon as it probably happens multiple times a week and sometimes a day.
/Rant off
That is actually my main job. I have to monitor emails from various systems when people have questions and from phone calls. Some glorified help desk if you will.
I have seen many of the fake email scams over the years, as many have.
Even red some stories of people messing with the scammers just to have fun.
http://www.419eater.com/html/joe_eboh.htm is a site where you can read about some scammers getting scammed when you are bored and need a laugh.
A year or so ago we had an issue with ransomware. One of the ladies in our work was not really paying attention to her emails and was clicking on links where she just should have deleted the emails. After they did a history of all of the emails that had this issue in it, they said I got most of them but I was smart enough just to delete them. Well it only took one lady to click on the emails and the links from within and the company had to pay money to ransomware to get our stuff back.
A rough lesson to learn from something some simple as to not open up and click on links if you don't know who it is from.
Now everyone is getting those stupid phone calls about getting free government grants and trying to sign you up. I get them so often at work and on my cell that I start repeating their spiel to them before they can start to do it on me. In which case they curse a bit and hang up.
But the part that is interesting to me is that they used to come from phone numbers that were foreign countries. Now some are coming with the listing of a State. Well most times I know if they are from states that we don't usually have business or I know someone from...I know what it is.
However not only are they using your home states now...sometimes they use numbers of local businesses in your area even some home numbers.
I called back a couple of numbers just to mess with them when I was bored and it went to a local business or a persons home and you could clearly tell they did not know what was going on but were getting calls from other people complaining about them when they did nothing.
Pretty crappy now that some ordinary joe's phone number is being used on the caller ID and he is getting yelled at for someone else doing this crap.
Really would love to find a way to get rid of some of these people doing the calls but it seems like it is not going to change anytime soon as it probably happens multiple times a week and sometimes a day.
/Rant off
