Another slick scam

[oosik]

My internet provider is Hughes Net. Got a email from Hughes Net this AM saying the data on my autopay program would not allow my monthly payment to be processed. They wanted me to click on their provided Hughes web page and enter and reconfirm all my info. This, of course, would be all my banking info also.

Sounded fishy - checked my on-line bank account and the payment had been processed. Check my billing account on the official Hughes Net web site - it showed the funds had been received.

Called Hughes Net and advised them of this scam. They get trickier every day.

 

[cqaigy2]

Wow, nice scam! Thanks for the heads up.

 

[LMychajluk]

You (the general 'you', not the OP) really need to be able to identify if an email is coming from who it says it's coming from. It's easy to show one name and not the actual email address of the sender, so saying you got an email from 'HughesNet' may not actually be accurate - it may just show as coming from HughesNet. (Technically, you can even send emails without even having an email account.) It's also important that you recognize where a link will take you. When clicking on a link in an email, look very carefully at the URL that it takes you to (usually hovering over it with the mouse pointer will show the actual URL you are being directed to). Once the site is open, most browsers now will have some type of indicator in the address bar that the URL is verified safe, but even then, beware. The OP did the right thing by ignoring the link and going directly to the HughesNet website to log into his account. (It's basically like a scammer calling you and telling you they're calling from your bank, and then giving you a phone number to call back so you can confirm who they are - NO! Call the bank's number from your statement or that you looked up yourself.)

 

[oosik]

There is one other thing I noticed. On the Hughes Net web site they provided and wanted me to use to enter and confirm all the data - none/not a one of the links on that web page worked. Click on the link - nothing happens - takes you nowhere - zip/zingy/notta.

 

[Jstpssng]

I've been getting phone calls; "Congratulations, your credit is SO GOOD that you qualify for 0% interest on ALL of your credit cards!"
Who'd have thunk that there was a clearing house that could do that for all of the banks.

 

[LMychajluk]

There is one other thing I noticed. On the Hughes Net web site they provided and wanted me to use to enter and confirm all the data - none/not a one of the links on that web page worked. Click on the link - nothing happens - takes you nowhere - zip/zingy/notta.

That's not a HughNet website, it's a copy, and please don't do things like click the 'links'. You never know what they may do or where they may take you.

 

[marchanna]

I got a fake Paypal email today and a real one. It was uncanny how well done the fake one was, but when I checked the sender it was not a real Paypal email address.

I get almost one scam email a day now. It gets tiring.

 

[bunyip]

We get them with monotonous regularity from banks, ebay, paypal and supermarket credit card providers, I carefully look at the source of the email which are surprisingly good, it worries me that someone else at home may open them and click on the link to have a chance to win $1000 just for taking the survey.
One that has dropped off as late are the offers of 75% of the $50,000,000:00 of Colonel Bongos' cousins wifes sisters boyfriends daughters fathers bank account.

 

[Wagtail]

We get them with monotonous regularity from banks, ebay, paypal and supermarket credit card providers, I carefully look at the source of the email which are surprisingly good, it worries me that someone else at home may open them and click on the link to have a chance to win $1000 just for taking the survey.
One that has dropped off as late are the offers of 75% of the $50,000,000:00 of Colonel Bongos' cousins wifes sisters boyfriends daughters fathers bank account.

Colonel Bongo! Let me know if there's a problem... I have a mate [a Nigerian Prince, in fact] who owes me a huge favour.

 

[oosik]

The REALLY SAD thing about all of this - the scams must be working a percentage of the time or "they" would try something else.