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Spent a full weekend cleaning up after a single click on a fake invoice email.
That one click let something nasty in that took me 48 hours to fully remove, change all my passwords, and check my bank statements, so what's the best way to spot those fake invoices now?
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jenny_white2115d agoMost Upvoted
Ugh, I feel this in my soul. My own rule now is if an email makes my heart drop into my stomach, I close it and go log into the actual website myself, never from the link. I got tricked by a fake shipping notification once because I was waiting on a package and my brain just short-circuited. The panic is the whole point, so I force myself to stop and breathe for a minute before I touch anything.
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oliviajenkins1mo ago
It's the same energy as those calls about your car's extended warranty. They create a low grade panic to make you act fast. A real invoice from a company you know will have your exact account details, not just a generic greeting. The fake ones always have a weird sense of urgency and a link to a strange looking login page. I just delete anything that asks me to click to 'view' or 'dispute' a charge I didn't expect.
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jesse_lopez141mo ago
Yeah that weird sense of urgency got my friend last month! She got a text about a Netflix charge, panicked, and clicked. They cleaned out her PayPal before she even realized.
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