OT wtf. Just got a bill from the Geek Squad
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I got it, too. Simply add the mail address to your Outlook blocked senders list. BTW, you should be checking your credit cards transactions as a matter of course. I do every few days. It drives my wife crazy asking her about transactions, but it's necessary. I also have spending alerts set on our three cards. Once every two years I must cancel reissue our main card, a co-branded rewards card, due to fraudulent transactions. You cannot be vigilant enough. And never, ever use a debit card when you can use a credit card because debit cards do not have the consumer protections. I only use debit card at ATM.
I use debit cards nearly every day- but not if it needs to leave my hand. I do agree about checking transactions - in fact I do that daily.
My mother's 80 year old cousin bought $300 in Apple gift cards and luckily her niece found out before she got scammed. This woman worked in a computer heavy environment until retiring a few years ago.
My friends father in law is now living with my friend and his wife after he got cyber scammed out of $12,000 while living at an assisted living facility. He was the police chief of a small municipality before retirement.
I like when they call me at work and tell me it's the IRS and that "I'm in very big trouble". I tell them that I began tracing their call upon pick up and they should expect the FBI to be arriving in short time. Please stay on the line until they arrive!
The IRS and Social Security ones are the easiest since neither of them will contact you by phone to let you know there is a problem, it will always be my mail. I had one call me about Social Security, they hung up on me when I asked them if they knew it was against the law to impersonate a federal agent. I had one that took the number out of service after I called it 10 times and hung up after they answered, I was bored on my way home from work that day.
