{"id":13056,"date":"2021-08-03T21:55:40","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T05:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/?p=13056"},"modified":"2021-08-03T21:55:40","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T05:55:40","slug":"best-buy-geek-squad-tech-support-renewal-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/best-buy-geek-squad-tech-support-renewal-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Buy Geek Squad Tech Support Renewal Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"

I guess it was a matter of time before scammers start sending out more fake company e-mails in hopes to get money and information out of users. For this one the e-mail seemed to portray itself as an invoice for Best Buy\u2019s Geek Squad service. It stated that I was going to be charged $499.99 for some kind of service. It stated the following:
\n_______________________________
\nReturn-path:
\nDelivery-date: Tue, 03 Aug 2021 14:06:13 +0000
\n (envelope-from )
\n id 1mAv3d-0008Ao-7V
\nReceived: from mail-qt1-f171.google.com ([209.85.160.171])
\nFrom: geek squad
\nDate: Tue, 03 Aug 2021 19:36:06 +0530
\nSubject: Auto Debit<\/p>\n

Dear Customer <\/p>\n

Your Subscription with Geeksquad for the online support will be renew today<\/p>\n

and 499.99$ is about to debit from your Account by today EOD <\/p>\n

For Any Assistance , Call out support Services +1 ((848) 272-5181
\nDESCRIPTION
\nProduct: Online Support and Software Warranty
\nQuantity : 1
\nTenure 3
\nPayment Method Direct debit
\nMode Online delivery
\nRenewal Amount 499.99$<\/p>\n

If you have any Issue Please call to our Support +1 (848) 272-5181
\n____________________________________<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s fake of course as even the e-mail contact is a Gmail account. Don\u2019t fall for this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I guess it was a matter of time before scammers start sending out more fake company e-mails in hopes to get money and information out of users. For this one the e-mail seemed to portray itself as an invoice for Best Buy\u2019s Geek Squad service. It stated that I was going to be charged $499.99 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[1425,7979,2696,865],"class_list":["post-13056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-money-making-scams","tag-best-buy","tag-geek-squad","tag-gmail","tag-scam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/geeksquadlogo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-3oA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13059,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13056\/revisions\/13059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}