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Showing Original Post only (View all)Got Scammed, details in message [View all]
Well friends, I got scammed yesterday or the day before. Got an email supposedly from Ace Hardware. Answer survey and get free gift. Did so and ordered free air purifier, shipping cost $7.Paid with Credit card. Today I get a charge of $49.95 on card. Seems i didn't read the fine print and accepting "free" gift put me on some kind of monthly payment program. With help from fraud alert I got it cleared and stopped the scam.
BEWARE my friends, beware!
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I have a gmail filter that triggers on the words "free gift" and automatically sends mail to spam.
Xipe Totec
Jan 2022
#1
+ agree. And if you can use PayPal or Venmo or etc so your credit card info isn't in the ether. n/t
iluvtennis
Jan 2022
#16
Lowe's, Kohl's, others. I get them fairly often. I look first at the sender's address.
lamp_shade
Jan 2022
#5
Nothing is ever free. Nothing. All of us should never ever respond to any emails stating that...
SWBTATTReg
Jan 2022
#11
Sorry, I was kind of hoping that I didn't misunderstand you (and I did!). I am sorry that I
SWBTATTReg
Jan 2022
#29
I got an email from Amazon today saying there was unusual activity on my account
kimbutgar
Jan 2022
#12
Never click a link in an email offering free anything. Period. There is no free anything.
cayugafalls
Jan 2022
#17
Also check whether it was actually Ace Hardware, or someone else using their name & logo as lures
JHB
Jan 2022
#19
That happened to me back in August. I knew it the second I hit "send" button
msfiddlestix
Jan 2022
#30