I've just had a few Netflix email scams arrive.
The main thing to remember is official emails will have your name on it. They know who you are, scammers as a rule won't-I was told that by a bank. I've never seen one use my name but they do use my email.
Don't give any details over the phone. Just because they say they are someone, doesn't mean they are telling you the truth. The bank will forgive you if you say you could be a scammer I'll call back later. If they hassle you, hang up, scammers want to fluster you. Try your bank after some time, once they've got bored and moved on to the next time.
Did anyone hear about the fake estate agents and the estate agents being hacked?
People were setting up what looked like valid estate agencies, selling houses that were legitimately for sale. Instead of paying mortgages on to the seller they were keeping all the money, abandoning the business and clearing off with the money. The person who was speaking of their experience on the programme I saw had moved in and months later got an eviction notice from the seller for failure to pay. Contacted the seller to say why!? Proved they'd handed the money over so they went into the estate agents only to find the place abandoned.
There was also people and their estate agents whose emails were hacked and a very similar email to the estate agents was set up. They'd be in 1 digit off or something missing. When the buyer was due to send money over the scammers would email on the fake account pretending to be the estate agent asking the seller to send it to a different account. They've made off with a good portion of the mortgage. If they clear the fake account quickly their untraceable.
I'll pick on Goosegirl to use as an example this is not her email, I just made it up.
Goosegirlsitsinraspberries@rubusmuncher.co.uk would be faked to Go0segirlsitsinraspberries@rubusmuncher.co.uk (o to 0) or
Gocsegirlsitsinraspberries@rubusmuncher.co.uk (0 to c)
Goosegirlsitsiraspberries@rubusmuncher.co.uk (n removed) or Goosegirlsitsinraspberries@rubusmuncher.co.uk (r removed)
Goosegirlsitsirraspberries@rubusmuncher.co.uk (n substituted for an r).
If your not expecting it would you really spot the difference? Give those examples a quick scan they all look really similar.
Modify to add, Amazon prime spammers got someone to add software onto their phone that allowed them to access everything on it. So they could clear her account.