AOL correctly marked this as spam, but it sometimes makes mistakes. The message said it was from Discover Card:
Before I did anything I went to the official Discover Card site and sure enough, it didn’t say anything. I could have just deleted the message without opening it, but I was curious to see where it would have directed me.
I didn’t click on the link, of course, but I copied it to Pages to see where it would have taken me:
We’re still scratching our heads wondering how it managed to look as if it came from Discover Card — I warned them this had happened and sent them the details.
April 22, 2020
If these people put as much energy into doing something worthwhile and good, just think what they could accomplish!
Unfortunately there will always be predators. 🙁
I agree with Rose.
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I got the same spam. I don’t even have a Discover Card so it was pretty easy to know it was spam. LOL
I get some easy ones too. 😀
We have seen several very similar emails from Discover and other major credit cards as well as Amazon. Sometimes you can tell by the email address when it is made up of a bunch of letters that don’t spell anything that makes sense. But it is often hard to tell. Best not to click on any links until you have verified in some way like you did. Most of the time we just call the customer service number on our cards.
The giveaway in your email was all the “big” words they used trying to sound so professional.
“our treasured customers” didn’t sound right either. I was mainly curious how they managed to make it look like it came from Discover Card. Usually when I look at the address the spam is coming from it’s clear it’s not from who they say they are.
what I had in the first few weeks were customer services people from places where I haven’t now got an account/other… and it really annoyed. Yesterday I believe there was another one, but interestingly what happened was they started with “how are you today?” and I said “I’m baking some cookies…” and then they hung up!
And I didn’t truly here who they were or from which company…and I couldn’t be bothered using redial…
We don’t have problems with telemarketers because we let everything go to voice mail and don’t pick up unless we know it’s someone we want to talk to. Hurray for answering machines!
They have a knack for making these things look official. Usually the wording seems off to me though as if maybe English isn’t a first language.
It’s sad that there are plenty of people who will fall for these.
Yes, their use of English was a giveaway, and it is sad that some people fall for the scams.
i have had this one and 3 from other cards also from banks. none of which i had an account with. they just spray them out hoping someone will share info. i never do anything an email asked. i always check the website. one that i keep getting says they have locked me out of Spectrum account and i was logged in using it at the time i got that spam mail…. it has gotten worse during the lock down
They will keep trying. And I agree, it’s especially easy when they pretend to come from companies we don’t use.