Anyone else get a "phishing" text regarding a shipment "from Whirlpool" that

[Atticus]

they did not order? Over $1500 "deducted from our card" that we do not have.

[MineralMan]

1. Sure. I get crap like that all the time.

I simply mark it as spam, delete the email, and go on with my day.

[Atticus]

3. That's what we did. Just wondered if anyone else got something similar. nt

[John1956PA]

5. +1

Years ago, when such phishing scams were sent only by email because texting was not yet in vogue, I would contact the anti-fraud departments of the corporations (usually financial) which were falsely represented in the scam. I eventually tired of doing so and began to simply delete the scam emails without ado.

[sarisataka]

2. No but I am waiting

On 3 separate iPad I don't recall ordering

[gab13by13]

4. You have to watch shit like that,

I got a pop up on my phone saying I had viruses that needed erased or I would be in deep shit. It wanted me to immediately download the fix. It even had a clock ticking down to show when the viruses would infect my phone. I tried everything and could not delete that pop up. Got wife's phone and called my daughter, she Googled it. I have Safari as a search engine, I had to go to settings, go to Safari, checked that block pop ups and fraudulent web sites were enabled, went to advanced, tap on web site data then hit remove all web site data. It worked, got rid of it.

Google can be your friend.

[Tetrachloride]

7. Get a blocker such as KaBlock

Free and made for Safari

[lamp_shade]

6. All the time.

Hover over the sender's email address and it'll be obvious that it's junk. Don't click on it. Just send it to Spam.

[gratuitous]

8. Got one about a renewal for a service I don't use

These fuckers are just relentless. Block, delete, go on with my day.

[flying_wahini]

9. I got one yesterday from 'Apple' saying somebody charged a game on my acct.

Spam. Don’t open, just delete.