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I just got an instant message on my phone telling me I had won a $1000 Best Buy gift card. All I had to do was click on an email address and enter a code. I Googled the email address and lots of folks had gotten the message. It's a scam out of China. I definitely wasn't gonna click on the link.
Moma got the same thing yesterday, told her to just delete it.
I got it also!!! Thanks Scott
I got one yesterday and said I had won $1000 from WalMart... Delete, delete, delete...
there all over, and all a rip off```
Dadgummit, I want my gift card! Lol. Pam got online and reported it to the MS attorney general's office.
I got it as well. You don't think someone has sold our email addresses do ya?
Minnerman
Crazyanglertackle.com
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Oh yea, I'm jus jokin Slab.
Minnerman
Crazyanglertackle.com
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I got the Best Buy one in a text message this morning.
I get a bunch of them. From a free dinner to $1000 gift card. I delete them all.
Supposed to text back "STOP" in capital letters and be able to stop em, who knows.:dono
I've been fighting with Best Buy for a few weeks. I've paid for insurance on my wife's cell phone for 20 months. I have all of the receipts from the payments made to them. She took her broken phone in to Best Buy to get a new one. They said that the original sales person wrote it up wrong and the phone wasn't insured. I told them that they have charged me for insurance for 20 months and what their employee did wasn't my problem. They still wouldn't honor the insurance but offered to refund all of the premiums I have paid (which they still havent!!!). I told them that I would never buy anything from Best Buy again. When I got the texts and emails saying I won a Best Buy gift card, I figured they were now trying to kiss up to me. I deleted it immediately!!!! BTW, I'm still waiting for my refund!!!! DON"T SHOP BEST BUY!!!!! Best Buy SUX!!!!!
Maj, you actually got a text on your phone from them? That's crossing the line big time
That's what mine was too, a text message on my iPhone. I wonder if they have a "no text list"?
No, the texts were the same scam Scott is talking aboutQuote:
Originally Posted by EmptyStringer
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Originally Posted by rees guide
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Thanks for the info Scott
I'd report them to the Better Buisiness Bureau. That sucks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Speck
I guarantee I have never sold your email address. And I know you were kidding, but I still had to say that. The only one I ever sold was Minners, and they made me pay them to take it! lol j/kQuote:
Originally Posted by Minnerman
Before long they will prob figure out how to make thier # show up as "Wife" or "Daughter" with a text saying something like "In trouble. Call back asap!" Then when you do you get charged $65
I get at least one of these bogus texts every day.
I get a bunch of texts like that. Since it comes to your phone number, it should be covered by the "Do not call" laws.
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You would think!Quote:
Originally Posted by jigflinger
Time to call the AG tomorrow. But since the texts originate off shore they prolly can't do anything about them.:banghead:
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Thats all people do these days is offer viruses
and take your money straight out your pocket
We emailed the EGs office about the one I got but these crooks know what they're doing.
Yup. Wife showed me the same thing on her phone and asked if I tho't it was on the upnup. NOT!
They did a story on this on WMC some months back. It's not any of the retailers doing this, it's some off shore outfit. THey are hoping you respond via email and put in your info. I get um all the time.
Jus had a gewber from Jamaica call me and said I've won 4.5 million greenbacks. Well, before we got off the phone, he was threatening to shoot me in the forehead and then he claimed he was outside my house watchin me and was gonna throw a bomb thru my window for messin with him. When I got up to go see if he was out there, I told him to listen. When I slammed the door I asked him if he heard it. He said yea what was that. I told him I was on the front porch nekid lookin for him and then he went into a cussin rant and told me I was an effin moron and he was gonna blow my effin head off. I told him I'd pray for him and hoped that God would have mercy on him. He then decided that I was wastin his time and politely hung up on me.
Jus fer the record, ifn y'all hear of me getting shot in the forehead or if my house gets blown up, y'all turn this phone number into the authorities. I took this pic when he first called just because of this thread.
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Minnerman
Crazyanglertackle.com
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Lets all call him and mess with him!
He might have said you won 4.5 million wetbacks.
Nice knowing you
Which store did you go through cause I have the insurance on mine as well through them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Speck
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I've used their insurance two times on phones going bad. They end up sending you a refurbished phone.
The store in Cape Girardeau, MO. Called Best Buy corporate again yesterday. No one seems to know anything about it and they want to start at square one every time I call!!!! I'm thinking it's time for legal action!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Little Skeeter
This is ridiculous!!! It's been going on for three months now. Maybe they give you the run around hoping you'll just give up!!!