This type of stuff is diabolical for old folks who just weren't inoculated to these scams. I feel terrible for them. Get calls often asking me to help interpret.
SoftTalker•18m ago
Keep it very simple: never give an SMS authentication code to anyone on a phone call, in response to a text message or email, or as part of any checkout or purchase. They are only to be used when logging in to an online account. Anything else is a scam.
Even that may be too complicated, now that I read it back.
adriand•14m ago
I’m super cautious with these messages like I’m sure we all are but on Monday I ordered a printer from Amazon. They said it would arrive on Wednesday. On Wednesday I was working from home and I got a text from “Purolator” saying they’d tried to deliver my package and failed. Shit! I’d been listening to beats too loud to hear the knock on the door! I ran outside to see if the delivery guy was still on my street. No one was around…and then I realized, damn, they got me (to dash outside, anyway).
These things can fail 99.99% of the time but when they land on someone at just the right moment, it’s so easy to just go on autopilot and do the dumb thing.
s_kierkegaard•33m ago
SoftTalker•18m ago
Even that may be too complicated, now that I read it back.