Too Good to be True

[der Teufel]

SCAM ALERT, I think

I got a Facebook ad saying Palmetto State Armory was having a clearance sale. Checked out the link and was brought to a page at https://palmesttostates*dot*shop/ with incredibly low prices. Very much too good to be true (Example: box of 525 rounds Winchester .22LR for $5.19). A quick Google search of PSA shows their web address is not the one above. A search of the real page provided by Google definitely doesn't show anything like the page the Facebook ad brought up.

I think most of us here are smart enough to recognize something so obviously wrong, but I wonder how many folks will enter their credit card info.

[rtschl]

[philip964]

I got a notice about this:

One of those emails with a Captcha’s where you prove you not a robot except you hit some keys then something else.

Installs a virus naturally. Microsoft said it had like 300,000 computers worldwide wide.

Hadn’t seen this before.

[puma guy]

many ammo manufacturers and vendors are being hacked. Many don't offer ridiculously low prices, instead low enough to seem legitimate. Some of the hacker's sites seem to have perfectly copied the item photos, descriptions and specs mimicing the real website of a vendor. Google search to find the real site and call their customer service.

[chasfm11]

My problem is with Facebook. There is a big law enforcement effort to deal with people who take over the computers of elder and demand payments. I have personally had those pages show up on my computer, all derived from otherwise innocent looking FB pages. I have the computer skills to show down the offending pages and I have reported them to FB. Today, they have sent back replies to me saying that they have not taken down a single one of the ones that I reported.

They know and they keep doing it. While I get it that the buyer has to be aware, FB is aiding and abbeting.

[Ruark]

Same here. I use FB to keep up with some old friends, my high school class, etc. Now you can click on a post ("more....") or in your messages you get something like "So-and-so sent you a message..." and whammo, you get a total computer takeover - "your computer has been infected! Contact Microsoft tech support IMMEDIATELY!".... and the only way out of it is a hard shutdown and reboot. This should be a major felony offense, with decades in prison. It's getting totally out of hand.