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Beware of Ishpa Business Solutions - Debopriyo Banerjee - sophisticated Scam
Thread poster: Sergey Kalashnik
Sergey Kalashnik
Sergey Kalashnik  Identity Verified
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Jan 10

Dear Valued Community,

This was something I have never faced before. He created an email similar to mine where he (me as he says) asks to send the payment to some stranger in India. He even sends screenshots of the email thread he had with himself (claiming it was me). His newly created email differs from my real email with 1 letter. Now he says he already paid that stranger. Can you believe that? Outrageous.
 
Kevin Fulton
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Local time: 20:53
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Sounds like a variant on the subscription refund scam Jan 10

In this scam, the victim receives notification of a fictitious payment made for a subscription to a particular service (e.g., anti-virus software), and is asked to contact the sender to cancel the order. In order to cancel the order/payment, the victim has to provide banking details. For some reason I get these quite regularly, along with extortion attempts, threatening to expose salacious activities recorded by my computer's video camera. The joke is, of course, that none of my monitors has a c... See more
In this scam, the victim receives notification of a fictitious payment made for a subscription to a particular service (e.g., anti-virus software), and is asked to contact the sender to cancel the order. In order to cancel the order/payment, the victim has to provide banking details. For some reason I get these quite regularly, along with extortion attempts, threatening to expose salacious activities recorded by my computer's video camera. The joke is, of course, that none of my monitors has a camera. The only thing I do at my desk besides work is procrastinate. ▲ Collapse


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jyuan_us
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Curious Jan 10

Sergey Kalashnik wrote:
Now he says he already paid that stranger. Can you believe that? Outrageous.


Why did he pay that stranger? What does his payment to that stranger have to do with you?
 
Sergey Kalashnik
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Nobody recieved this payment Jan 15

There was no actual payment. He only faked the payment info to make a screenshot from his email. I am sure there is no such recepient at all.

jyuan_us wrote:

Sergey Kalashnik wrote:
Now he says he already paid that stranger. Can you believe that? Outrageous.


Why did he pay that stranger? What does his payment to that stranger have to do with you?


 


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