Yes, sc4ms exist. They will not go away. If you didn’t order anything, the DHL message is a sc4m. If you didn’t request anything from the bank, it’s a sc4m. If you are unsure simply ignore/delete the message and if nothing major happens you’re fine. For the love of god just use your brain. If anything else, just read [this](https://www.aura.com/learn/how-to-identify-a-fake-text-message) and you will be better prepared than ever.

by Robin2win14

8 comments

  1. Agreed! Staggering to see how unsure people are or obvious fraud attempts/phishing 🤯

  2. Do you mean it’s not a recruiter trying to contact me via WhatsApp? It’s for a *job position* and it can be done *part time remotely*, they just need to know my bank coordinates to hire me.

  3. Let’s be honest here, are there any simpler ways to show people that you’re technically illiterate and gullible?

  4. The only scam that threw me for a second was a message sent through Booking.com from a hotel I’d booked months previously. It said there was a problem with my payment and asked me to click a link to prevent my booking from being cancelled. My booking on the platform made no mention of this, so I called Booking.com – the hotel had been hacked. No problem with my booking and luckily I hadn’t followed the link.

    Lesson is, never click a link asking for payment info, go straight to the source website/app and check there instead.

  5. Working at a bank, you have no idea how many people get scammed (not only older people) and lose a lot of money. Please create awareness among your family etc.

  6. Well i called post to complain ..
    “ we are aware and working on a solution but no idea when that one is ready”…
    Useless as usual..

  7. I also find it annoying. But to be fair, I have group chats with friends and family where we will occasionally share various scams, compare what we have received and make fun of the scammers bad grammar etc. Maybe people who have arrived not so long ago don’t yet have that kind of community to share these things and that’s why they share them here? My newly arrived acquaintances all tell me they have never received as many scams in their life as they do there. So while I agree that the countless “is this a scam?” posts must stop, maybe a Scams Megathread could help? It would hopefully also make the mod’s work somewhat easier. Provided people actually use it, of course. But maybe there are already bots in place which tell people not to make new posts about scams and I just don’t know it because I don’t make them.

  8. Imagine getting upset cuz some people post images of scam texts on reddit. What a bunch of Karen’s!

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