10 Ways To Tell If an Email Is a Scam

Lately lots of scam text mesg on job offer work at home.. I always answer.. Oh yay another scammer

If both the sender and receiver used ID-Truster, they could protect themselves completely, just like shown in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIgsh95vwlU

PayPal is the worst

Very good advice, thanks

I kept getting an email about my cloud storage on my phone. And I went to Verizon, and he opened it and went all the way to the bottom and said ☆ CHINA !!

I got a message saying the store I ordered from needed to verify a high-dollar order, and needed a photo of me & of my government ID. The order wouldn't be shipped until the info until they had the info. Obvious scam.

Every topic that was spoken
on in this particular video
is essentially /
fundamentally correct.
Funny how I was talking
about this very topic
right before
I watched this video
and everything in the video
is what I discussed
concerning scams
vis-a-vis
email or text.

Don't open that LINK!

BE CAREFUL WITH
THAT AXE EUGENE!

Gary,
All I can say is thank you
for being so helpful.

Plus, you can never be quite
sure what it is they're
trying to dump into
your system as well
whether it be a:
Cell Phone
Laptop or
Computer System.
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Scammers usually do not address you by name as they don't know it. Also postal scams who claim to have a package for you. They address your email or part of it.
Obviously legitimate business know your name and address.
A sure giveaway!

SAY THE NAME, the 'down arrow' opens the 'expand menu' button and is aka the 'expand' button. Knowing this not only helps identify a link, but helps understand the purpose of the link and how it is used. Moving your 'pointer' or 'cursor' over a link or text is also known as 'hover' in instructions and directions on a computer. These 'synonyms' may cause confusion if not explained when teaching 'how to' for computer users.

Thanks for this great video, Gary.

Reposted !

Excellent advice Gary.I recently received email to pay my toll fee in Missouri we don't have any.

I recently got a text from a company I didn’t recognize, and couldn’t immediately find in a Google search. My immediate thought was that legitimate companies would not bill me through a text message, so it must be a scam.

However, what they said in the text could conceptually have been relevant to recent medical procedures. They seemed to know enough that I was only 85% sure it was a scam.

So, I reluctantly called the number provided, and began my investigation with simply “who are you?” trying to avoid prompting them with any information they could use against me.

Simultaneously, they were skeptical about me trying to scam them, or more precisely that I could be a scammer trying to scam the real me, which I took to be promising. I continued with things like, “we had a procedure performed in March; if you’re legitimate, then you should be able to tell me the day in March” and “the patient’s name begins with “N”; if you’re legitimate, you should be able to tell me the patient’s name”

Through that process of progressively validating each other, and then subsequently calling the doctor’s office who performed the procedure, to ask them whether they do business with the alleged contractor service, I ultimately accepted that the bill was in fact legitimate, much to my surprise.

Moral of the story: Legitimate companies are starting to save a few cents by billing through text messages rather than sending bills in the physical paper mail. Investigate cautiously, not giving up any more information than you need to!

I look through the header of the email to get the real information about the server. I check SPF, DKIM, and DMARC to verify the authenticity of the email before interacting with it.

I’m thinking about making an application that could do this automatically for people who are less tech-savvy.

I hope other people have said this but you really SHOULDN'T click and hold a suspicious link in a suspicious email to get the actual address to show up... That is eventually gonna backfire if you slip or move your finger and actually CLICK to go to the link by accident and it turns out your fears were correct. It can happen the very first time you try it...
Go to the website and login if it's one you are subscribed to, or email the business with their actual email, or find some other way to verify the integrity of the email.

The best advice you gave here is when you get an email from the company you deal with and you are not sure go to the real website to search or if it's a saved site go to your bookmark. I have done this before it happened out. I don't investigate anything. I just go to the website and I make a phone call to customer service sometimes I get scams telling me that my drivers license has a problem when I get one of these I know it's scam because I was born a poor eyesight and I never had a car. I never drove a car I can't drive but before I do anything I do the first thing I always check the email address thank you very much for this. I found it useful that you can pull over the link and see the real address though I would never touch it anyway because I always would go to the website itself to check. It's the safest way I find your videos very useful. God bless.

Some scammers use a different character set to make
the sender e-mail address look legit.
You can often spot it by copying the address and pasting it into TextEdit.
And if something seems too good to be true, it most often is.
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I have a IPAD and not a MAC. I believe TEMU is a scam.

What if a real person sent you an email and they just say “Dear Reader “ or Dear Customer?”

This is a great learning!

Any podcast you recommend? My favorite podcast Intego stop producing podcasts and Security Now is way too long.

Scam's can also be found on what you think are legitimate merchant sites. Case in point: I was looking for a particular type of lighting for a bathroom remodeling I was doing. I did a Google search and several options popped up. They had the lights I was looking for at what seemed like a fair price, so I ordered them and gave my credit card info, address, etc. I even got a confirmation email.
However, I later had a question about the lights and tried to call them at the number listed on the web site. It was a non-working number. Then, I looked at the address/ location they listed as their location, and found it was in a town that did not even exist. Luckily I was able to call my CC company and stop that charge (it took a while for the CC company to complete an investigation, but ultimately I got my money back. Of course I also ordered a new card with a new number since these scammers had my original cc number.

If a company REALLY wants to contact you, they can use the U S mail.
I’ve even gotten scam offers sent registered mail. I guess they figured that would work. (It was, however, 25 years ago.)

Great information

Thanks for the Mac mail info. I just bought my 1st Mac, so I hadn't found that yet. One scammer downloaded my photo from Facebook and sent into me saying it was him. Can't get any dummer than that. Another sent a photo of a dead movie actor and said it was here, she had a Phd, and worked for Amazon. Also dumb, but not quit so much.

Very useful - Thank you!

Great video but no offense, not a fan of the usage of AI images

Sometimes I just do a screenshot of the email and drag it into ChatGPT to ask it to analyze if it's a scam or not.

This was a great video! It seems we get one or two of these examples-weekly.

All good advice, thanks Gary. Tiksnapfacegram.... will avoid them, classic

Thank you so much. Be handy if there was an alert option for when the reply address is different from the incoming. I thought this after receiving an email from the account of a friend who had been hacked.

Note about the URL reveal. QR codes don’t even give you that information.

Great points.We received a message from our credit card company saying tha a replacement card was on the way. Never requested this, straight to the trash.

Excellent advice Gary.

my favorite scam email is the ones that are long and elaborate telling me they've been watching me do naughty things thru my webcam at certain sites. I don't have a webcam 😆

i just ignore the email and, for example, go to my bank's website. easy! thanks!

I have been watching your back catalogue & I was sure I had seen a similar video like this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTX9yn2Z-Rc but it's always good for a refresher