ACE Hardware scam PSA

[semenza]

Apparently there is a scam going on presenting as an ACE Hardware Dewalt (and maybe Craftsman) giveaway. I have received quite a few emails for it telling me I had won a Dewalt light. I didn't open any of them so I don't know any details. It was almost plausible to me since I had recently bought something at ACE. I rarely  go there. Thought there may have been an automatic holiday entry .

  Anyway ................ watch out for it.

Seth

 

[Hipplewm]

lowes, Homedepot, harbor freight, menards, grainger - they all have the same thing

I run my own mail server, so it is pretty easy to weed them out, but I feel for people with gmail account or some other crappy email that doesn't have great spam filters.

 

[Packard]

Regarding scams, in general.

I’ve been getting trivia questions in my emails.  Click for the answer.

I googled the trivia address and asked if it was a scam.  A “reporting” site said that there was no problem with the site.

But when I googled the reporting site, it was a pay-for-a-good-review site. So the reporting site was a scam too.

Unless it is the Better Business Bureau, don’t trust the reporting sites either.

I had heard that some of the scams created fake “safe” reporting sites.  But until today, I didn’t know that there was a support industry for the scams.

 

[Holzhacker]

This is an easy one for me.
I never win anything so if someone says I did, I know its a scam.  ;D

 

[MikeGE]

I see these in my spam folder sometimes.  The nearest ACE Hardware store to me is just over 4,000 miles away so I don't pay attention to them.  [laughing]

 

[Sparktrician]

One thing to look at/for is a sender's email address with a domain that contains ".onmicrosoft.com".  The domain will be longer than this with other meaningless characters.  I seem to get these regularly.  [mad]

 

[Ron B]

Can you imagine what it will be like when A.I. takes over?