Jim Rossman: Scammers never stop scamming
Published in Science & Technology News
I received an email this week from Cricket Wireless.
It read:
“Valued Customer,
There is a pending identity verification on your Cricket Wireless profile. Due to this error, we limited access to our service(s) until this is done.
To remove limitation, please get verified by GOING HERE (this was a link).
Regards,
Cricket Wireless LLC “
The email had the Cricket Wireless logo, and even a “click to unsubscribe” link. It looked pretty legitimate – but it was fake.
The link lead to a page that looked like a Cricket support page, and there were blanks there for me to enter my login credentials and even the account PIN.
How did I know this was a scam?
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