The Refund Scam: How it Works
12/16/22 • 9 min
You get an email telling you you've been billed for a product you never ordered, and when you call for a refund, you somehow you get an excess refund and have to send back the difference. Find out how scammers manipulate people into sending them "excess refund money" from a nonexistent refund, and what you can do to keep it from happening to others. Shout-out to YouTuber Kitboga for showing me how this scam works.
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You get an email telling you you've been billed for a product you never ordered, and when you call for a refund, you somehow you get an excess refund and have to send back the difference. Find out how scammers manipulate people into sending them "excess refund money" from a nonexistent refund, and what you can do to keep it from happening to others. Shout-out to YouTuber Kitboga for showing me how this scam works.
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How Hacks Happen - The Refund Scam: How it Works
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Hello, my fellow Hack Dodgers. This one is about a common scam that's been going around called the Refund Scam. This is a scam where you talk to someone on the phone telling you that you're due for a refund of some kind, what they do is manipulate your bank information online to convince you that they have given you an excess refund by mistake, and that you should send them back the extra money. And that's the scam.
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