{"id":16300,"date":"2023-12-13T23:57:12","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T07:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/?p=16300"},"modified":"2023-12-13T23:57:12","modified_gmt":"2023-12-14T07:57:12","slug":"scolding-scammers-versus-just-reporting-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/scolding-scammers-versus-just-reporting-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Scolding Scammers Versus Just Reporting Them"},"content":{"rendered":"

This was kind of interesting as it would appear recently a company has been mass e-mailing people fake billings from PayPal where I can imagine many people will actually just pay it thinking it\u2019s something they forgot to attend to. This one in particular just stated the following:<\/p>\n

Invoice payment reminder
\nReminder: BiIIing Team sent you an invoice.
\nAmount due: $340.00 USD
\nDue on receipt<\/p>\n

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In these cases you can simply report it and it will be taken down. But because they mass e-mailed a bunch of people some decided to actually reply to the e-mail in an attempt to scold the senders. However, their emails went to everyone on the list. Other than maybe getting some personal satisfaction in say yelling at a scammer, it is often suggested that you don\u2019t reply to these e-mails and either report or just ignore them.<\/p>\n

The reason is replying to them verifies that it\u2019s a valid e-mail address with someone actively using it. Therefore, you will likely be placed on another list to be sent even more scams. Why put yourself in that position? From what I saw too PayPal appeared to have taken it down pretty quickly. So it may be better to just report them versus replying to them directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This was kind of interesting as it would appear recently a company has been mass e-mailing people fake billings from PayPal where I can imagine many people will actually just pay it thinking it\u2019s something they forgot to attend to. This one in particular just stated the following: Invoice payment reminder Reminder: BiIIing Team sent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16301,"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":[7740],"class_list":["post-16300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-money-making-scams","tag-spammers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/scam.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-4eU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16300","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=16300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16303,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16300\/revisions\/16303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}