beware of new Amazon Prime and GoodToGo scams
Posted: Sun May 26, 2024 2:25 pm
In the past two weeks, I have received scarily authentic looking emails saying there were problems with my accounts. For GoodToGo (a WA state toll payment method), they said my account was overdrawn by $15.41. This one got through my usually effective spam blocker. For Amazon Prime, they said there was a problem with my payment method. This one was blocked by my spam blocker.
Neither claim was true. Both wanted me to click on a link to respond. I didn't.
The reason these keep coming is that they sometimes work. A scammer/spammer will pay only a few hundred dollars to send 1,000,000 emails. If only one in 10,000 recipients clicks on the link, that's 100 victims. Each one may return thousands in profits. And some scammers send one million emails per day.
Read up on "how to avoid email scams", either online or through magazines like AARP's newsletter. Don't click on links for payments or account corrections that appear in emails. Go directly to the company's website chances are there will be no problems reported there.
Randy Brook
Twisp
Neither claim was true. Both wanted me to click on a link to respond. I didn't.
The reason these keep coming is that they sometimes work. A scammer/spammer will pay only a few hundred dollars to send 1,000,000 emails. If only one in 10,000 recipients clicks on the link, that's 100 victims. Each one may return thousands in profits. And some scammers send one million emails per day.
Read up on "how to avoid email scams", either online or through magazines like AARP's newsletter. Don't click on links for payments or account corrections that appear in emails. Go directly to the company's website chances are there will be no problems reported there.
Randy Brook
Twisp