Budweiser Spam Scam in a Text

[MineralMan]

My cell phone beeped this morning to tell me I had a new text. I'm expecting some important ones, so I immediately checked it.

It was a text from a spoofed local cell phone number claiming to be from Anheuser Busch. In it, they offered to pay me $550 per week in exchange for putting a small Budweiser sticker on my car. Ridiculous. How stupid would I have to be to make contact with whomever sent me that text?

Now, some companies will pay car owners to do a complete wrap on their car that advertises something, but nobody is paying $550 a week for a small advertising sticker. Not happening. They might give you a case of Buds to put a sticker on your car, but that would be about it.

Some scams are just too ridiculous to take in anyone with a functioning brain.

If you get a text like that, just delete it and block the number it came from.

[multigraincracker]

1. Block that number.

Now I'm doing that for text and WhatsApp.

[MineralMan]

2. I did, but the scammer will just spoof another number.

[multigraincracker]

3. Apple has an App that blocks spam text messages.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/textkiller-spam-text-blocker/id1514005355

Had to google the problem and found this. I might look into it.

[packman]

4. I'm still waiting for my payment from that Nigerian Prince

who had a 10mill. $ lottery ticket winner but couldn't cash it in because his father would disinherit him.

I got a scam call the other day in regard to my prescription drugs. They promised to fill all of them at a greatly reduced cost. Knowing it was a scam I spent about 15 min. on the phone going over every one of my many drugs and finally hung up when, Bruce from Indiana, asked for a credit card number.

[Midnight Writer]

6. You can stop waiting for your Prince to come. I beat you to it. You snooze, you lose.

[MineralMan]

5. Here's How Those Scams Work

If you contact them, they will ask for your bank information so they can "get those weekly payments started." What will get started, instead, is big withdrawals from your account.

Don't fall for such nonsense. Nobody's going to pay you to sticker your car as an ad. Not happening.

[Brother Buzz]

10. Actually this is a textbook over payment scam

You receive a huge bogus check, sent via Fedex to side-step USPS fraud crimes. The check includes you advanced monthly pay plus the cost of the wrap.

And you are instructed to deposit the check in your bank, then wire payment to the wrap outfit (actually a third party address) before you can set up a nonexistent car wrap appointment.

This scam works on a VERY tight schedule before the check bounces.

[marie999]

7. My first question to them is what is the name of your company, its address, and phone number..

They hang up.

[multigraincracker]

9. I like to ask for a number I can reach you at.

When they say they can’t give out that, I know it’s a scam. If l can’t reach the salesperson, I can’t deal with them and I tell them that before I hang up.

[lagomorph777]

8. Can it.