Email Scams - A Word of Warning

Apparently, I want to buy cars in England, I want to sign up for anything that moves, and I want to have meetings with lots of people, or are these email scams?

I’ve noticed recently that there’s a significant increase in companies that are claiming that I’ve signed up for their services, even if it’s a 30 day demo or the like, and if I just click here I’ll finish setting up my demo. Problem is I haven’t heard of any of these guys.

Oh and I’ve also had about 4 emails from a car dealership in England saying that I really should set up my test drive sooner or later because these prices won’t last forever.

And then finally I’m getting several calendar invites that look like Zoom meetings that I’ve set up somehow and it’s just confirming it.

The fun part is, I haven’t done any of these things. Here’s the challenge, why are they coming my way? Because some of them are legitimate companies with legitimate services that are making a claim.

So is somebody impersonating me, which is easy to do, just go sign up and give them my email address, or are they trying to convince me that I’m more interested in it or what is going on? And the answer is, I don’t really care.

The bottom line is, if someone calls me on my phone, I don’t answer unless I know the number.

If someone emails me that I have responded or reached out to them, I don’t reply unless I’ve responded or reached out to them.

And the issue is, and I’ve said this before, bad guys are becoming more and more innovative as far as they approach this stuff and this is no exception.

So my point is, be careful because the bad guys are out there, as always, and they are coming up with more and more ways to try to convince you apparently that you know them, that you’re good buddies, and you want to use their product.

So what scam works best on you?