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cbabe

(6,647 posts)
Fri Mar 15, 2024, 01:43 PM Mar 2024

Scam warning: Took my laptop in for repair. When I

got home there was an email asking me to update my credit card info so ‘they’ could renew my store ‘membership’.

Very plausible site and $amount.

I don’t have a store membership.

Must’ve gotten my info off the laptop when at the store.

Careful. Scammers and hackers are everywhere.

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Scam warning: Took my laptop in for repair. When I (Original Post) cbabe Mar 2024 OP
Wow! They still repair laptops? (Yeah, I know they do.) n/t elocs Mar 2024 #1
Classic computer repair cbabe Mar 2024 #5
Those old Compaq keyboards were strong! Turbineguy Mar 2024 #7
I had mine repaired a few years ago... Think. Again. Mar 2024 #2
Good one! bif Mar 2024 #3
I thought UPS lost that laptop? Shermann Mar 2024 #4
Maybe, I sold it on ebay to some guy named Rudy. Think. Again. Mar 2024 #6
Is your repairman named John Paul Mac Isaac? emulatorloo Mar 2024 #8
I got a fake invoice yesterday from Best buy Greek squad renewing my annual geek squad for $312 kimbutgar Mar 2024 #9
 

Think. Again.

(22,456 posts)
2. I had mine repaired a few years ago...
Fri Mar 15, 2024, 01:46 PM
Mar 2024

...and when I got home with it and started it up, it kept calling me Hunter.

kimbutgar

(27,248 posts)
9. I got a fake invoice yesterday from Best buy Greek squad renewing my annual geek squad for $312
Fri Mar 15, 2024, 03:23 PM
Mar 2024

I called the number and it disconnected every time. I brought a computer last February 2023 and still had my receipt and I didn’t sign up for a repair renewal fee. The closer I looked at it the fonts were off and it was a reddish orange color and not the usual Best Buy logo.

So many scams nowadays. And if someone calls asking for money and asking I give them my credit card info I tell them no send me a pledge card and I’ll mail a check. I never give out my credit number to someone calling me!

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