New email spam scam

[thewayne]

These might be appearing in your Inbox, not your Spam folder, so be aware.

Fake Best Buy Geek Squad invoices.

I've received two that were properly flagged as spam. It says that your Geek Squad subscription is about to renew and $419 will be charged to your card.

This hits on some good psychological pain points. It's a good-sized chunk of money, it's possible that you may have a Geek Squad subscription for computer support, and there's the time pressure element.

But they always have at least two tells: they don't have your name on the 'subscription invoice' and they always originate from an odd email address, perhaps Gmail. NEVER call the phone number on this 'invoice' as that could easily get sold to other scammers, just delete this crap and be done with it.

Comments

[disneydream06]

I don't think I have gotten anything from "Best Buy", but for awhile I was getting tons of them supposedly from Norton. At first I was like, my subscription is not due now. Ignore. Then I was getting them daily, and I was like, Ahh... Spam attempts. Delete, Delete, Delete.....
Hugs, Jon

[thewayne]

Yup!  My dad was often calling me, asking "What antivirus is it that I have on my computer?"  I had installed Zone Alarm Pro firewall and anti-virus and pay for a multi-PC license so I have it on my laptop and his PC.  Even though I'll be decommissioning his PC, I'm going to be buying another for myself later this year, so I'll probably keep the multi-computer license.  It's an excellent firewall and a very good anti-virus that is quite silent until something happens.

[disneydream06]

Sounds pretty good.
Norton although good, is constantly trying to sell upgrades. :o

[silveradept]

It's amazing how much spam I get about services I don't have, and how there are so many subscriptions supposedly ending that I know for a fact aren't, because they're all set up to auto-pay. Blargh.