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Got set up for online scam and who knows what else.

Got set up for online scam and who knows what else.

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by: cador Active Indicator LED Icon 10 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Jan 12, '15 8:57pm  
 Deleted my long post until I find out tomorrow if I was really talking to yahoo or a scammer, will update. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Jan 12, '15 9:32pm  
�Deleted my long post until I find out tomorrow if I was really talking to yahoo or a scammer, will update.
 
@cador:
 
Oh your not the only one. Hubby had some guy call him last week telling him he could lower our apr on our credit cards. Thank god I came home when I did and told him it was scam & if he didn't believe me to look up the number. Well he had already given the guy 2 of our credit card numbers over the phone. Hubs tells the guy that he was full of ****. Guy on phone tells hubby that we better have a good lawyer cus he's suing us for swearing at him over the phone.lmao! As soon as hubs gets off the phone we call the credit card companies and report them stolen. 4951
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~ 9 years ago   Jan 12, '15 9:55pm  

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>> �Deleted my long post until I find out tomorrow if I was really talking to yahoo or a scammer, will update.
 
@cador:
 
Oh your not the only one. Hubby had some guy call him last week telling him he could lower our apr on our credit cards. Thank god I came home when I did and told him it was scam & if he didn't believe me to look up the number. Well he had already given the guy 2 of our credit card numbers over the phone. Hubs tells the guy that he was full of ****. Guy on phone tells hubby that we better have a good lawyer cus he's suing us for swearing at him over the phone.lmao! As soon as hubs gets off the phone we call the credit card companies and report them stolen.
 
@mpjp0907: your husband gave out cc#'s?  over the phone?  LOL  I hope you ***** slapped him. 
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cador Active Indicator LED Icon 10 OP 
~ 9 years ago   Jan 12, '15 9:56pm  
Yea, friggin scammers, may of got me, short story, my mom couldn't get into her Yahoo email, after trying several times it said she had to call Yahoo, I googled their phone #, got a number from their answers.yahoo.com  (its all over their site, if it's a scam, can't believe they havn't deleted the number or put a warning out, as old posts are from 08 showing the #), the guy that answered had me allowing him to join (get in my  moms computer, whatever its called), trying to tell me someone was attacking her email, wanted me to buy his security, showed me they had my SS # (I had a credit app in her documents he pulled it from).If he was, I got played well, googling the # some say it's a scam, that they are trying to get you to buy their security services, and once they get your CC your screwed. I didn't give them my CC, but he was in her computer for a few minutes, I believe he pulled up that credit app (maybe to scare me into buying his stuff, but he has a lot of my personal info) so if I don't find out from yahoo it's legit (which I don't think it is), I got a lot of hassle with freezing my credit, canceling cards, and... worried about my moms bank info as she does a lot of banking online, it's scary.  4951
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~ 9 years ago   Jan 12, '15 9:57pm  

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>> �Deleted my long post until I find out tomorrow if I was really talking to yahoo or a scammer, will update.
 
@cador:
 
Oh your not the only one. Hubby had some guy call him last week telling him he could lower our apr on our credit cards. Thank god I came home when I did and told him it was scam & if he didn't believe me to look up the number. Well he had already given the guy 2 of our credit card numbers over the phone. Hubs tells the guy that he was full of ****. Guy on phone tells hubby that we better have a good lawyer cus he's suing us for swearing at him over the phone.lmao! As soon as hubs gets off the phone we call the credit card companies and report them stolen.
 
@mpjp0907: your husband gave out cc#'s?  over the phone?  LOL  I hope you ***** slapped him. 
 
@Francita:
I KNOW RIGHT!!???! idgit
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fcabanski Active Indicator LED Icon 16
~ 9 years ago   Jan 13, '15 1:02am  
Was it bad to give the guy from Nigeria my social security number and bank account routing numbers? 4951
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Annie Active Indicator LED Icon 18
~ 9 years ago   Jan 13, '15 8:11pm  
Did you get any good news? 4951
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ProblemAgain Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 9 years ago   Jan 13, '15 8:37pm  
Yea, friggin scammers, may of got me, short story, my mom couldn't get into her Yahoo email, after trying several times it said she had to call Yahoo, I googled their phone #, got a number from their answers.yahoo.com  (its all over their site, if it's a scam, can't believe they havn't deleted the number or put a warning out, as old posts are from 08 showing the #), the guy that answered had me allowing him to join (get in my  moms computer, whatever its called), trying to tell me someone was attacking her email, wanted me to buy his security, showed me they had my SS # (I had a credit app in her documents he pulled it from).If he was, I got played well, googling the # some say it's a scam, that they are trying to get you to buy their security services, and once they get your CC your screwed. I didn't give them my CC, but he was in her computer for a few minutes, I believe he pulled up that credit app (maybe to scare me into buying his stuff, but he has a lot of my personal info) so if I don't find out from yahoo it's legit (which I don't think it is), I got a lot of hassle with freezing my credit, canceling cards, and... worried about my moms bank info as she does a lot of banking online, it's scary. 
 
@cador: as long as it was yahoo, you're likely safe. remember all these companies are trying to sell you crap to maximize their profits. but do this as a just in case...if your mom can access her account, have her change the password and change the security question. the procedure they followed is called remote access or remote administration. you can disable it but then if you run into this trouble again, how do you get it fixed? anyway after she changes password  can go to    housecall.trendmicro .com/    from there download the little applet for the computer and run it. select whichever you need 32 bit or 64....it will check over your computer for malware...the other thing you can do is to download malwarebytes. that is a free program tho there is a paid version as well. you can load malwarebytes on a flashdrive, it can be updated on the flashdrive and run to check for malware on a computer by simply plugging it into a usb porthttps://www.malwarebytes.org/downloads/
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