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Bit.ly Reports & Reviews (162)

- Westerville, OH, USA

Country United States
Victim Location OH 43081, USA
Type of a scam Fake Invoice/Supplier Bill

I got a call Monday and Tuesday. Monday was a voice mail. I talked to them. They said they were the BBB and a complaint had been made under my name. I could tell he was calling from a boiler room. They put me on hold and said a file was made.

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- Honolulu, HI, USA

Country United States
Victim Location HI 96814, USA
Type of a scam Phishing

This is to advise you that we, a government agency, have received several scam calls to our office from a Mr. Roland, 1-876-395-6457 (caller ID shows Kingston, Jamaica) stating the availability of a cashier’s check and wanting personal information.

This is obviously a scam. Of additional concern is that Mr. Roland identified himself as being with the ScamPulse.com of Hawaii.

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- Billings, MT, USA

Scammer's phone 4062991812
Scammer's address Unknown
Country United States
Victim Location MT 59102, USA
Type of a scam Fake Check/Money Order

I got a call this morning from the local "BBB" here in Montana. Well, that's already fishy to me as I have never owned a business, reported one or even had any sort of interaction with them what so ever. Anyway, the caller (clearly not a native English speaker) starts his spiel. He has a check for me that I need to claim... yeah, right... so he asks me a bunch of questions. Am I married? Do I work or am I retired? Do I have transportation? Where do I work? And this guy did his best to seem legit. Even calling me back after we " got disconnected" several times. But it sounded like they were going to send me a check. The guy never said where or who it's from either. My best guess is that it's a "overpayment" scam. Where they send you a counterfeit check for a amount of way more than they originally told you and ask you to send the "overpaid" amount back. The money never turns up cause the origin account didn't exist and you are out the REAL money you send them with no way to get it back.

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- Sarasota, FL, USA

Scammer's phone non provided
Scammer's address non provided
Scammer's email [email protected]
Country United States
Victim Location FL 34243, USA
Type of a scam Phishing

I've seen others posted, but we received the same fake "Incident Report" as follows:

This email message has been automatically sent to you because ScamPulse.com has received an abuse, claiming that your company is violating the Fair Labor Standards Act.

You can download the text file with the explanation of abuse by following the link https://bit.ly/2jjJfmz

We also request that you send a short answer within 48 hours to us. This message should contain info about what you intend to do with it.

Important notice:

When replying to us, keep the compliant ID "Incident:1182011322378:081" unchanged in the subject line.

ScamPulse.com

Abuse Department

Tony K Edwards

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Type of a scam Phishing

claiming that your company is violating the The Safety and Health Act tries to get you to click on a link

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- Sarasota, FL, USA

Scammer's phone None given
Scammer's website bit.ly
Scammer's address None given
Scammer's email [email protected]
Country United States
Victim Location FL 34232, USA
Type of a scam Phishing

I have received the following email on 09/11/17 to my graphic design email address:

Thomas M Mick (email [email protected])

Case:845401285940:436

To:

This notification has been automatically sent to you because BBB has received an abuse, claiming that your company is violating the The Safety and Health Act.

You can download the text file with the explanation of abuse by following the link https://bit.ly/2jgTh7W

We also ask that you send a reply in 48 hours to us. This message should contain information about what you intend to do about it.

Important notice:

When replying to us, please keep the compliant ID "Case:845401385940:436" native in the subject line.

ScamPulse.com

Abuse Department

Thomas M Mick

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- Tampa, FL, USA

Scammer's email [email protected]
Country United States
Victim Location FL 33614, USA
Type of a scam Phishing

Received this email on 09/11/2017:

This email message has been automatically sent to you because BBB has got a complaint, claiming that your company is violating the Fair Labor Standards Act.

You can download the text file with the explanation of compliant by following the link https://bit.ly/2jhD3Lv

We also ask that you send a short message within 24 hours to us. This message should contain information about what you plan to do about it.

Important notice:

When replying to us, please keep the compliant ID "Incident:2604037272987:896" native in the subject line.

ScamPulse.com

Compliant Department

Courtney J Vinson

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Victim Location 34237
Type of a scam Phishing

I received this email and I believe it is a fraudulent email.

-----Original Message-----

From: Veronica C Gleason [mailto:[email protected]]

Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 11:04 AM

To: Affinity Info

Subject: 7793622953190:780

This email notification has been automatically sent to you because ScamPulse.com has got an abuse, claiming that your company is violating the The Safety and Health Act.

You can download the text file with the explanation of abuse by following the link https://bit.ly/2jiguX1

We also request that you send a answer within 48 hours to us. This message should contain information about what you intend to do about it.

Important note:

When replying to us, keep the compliant ID "7793622953190:780" native in the subject .

BBB

Compliant Department

Veronica C Gleason

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Scammer's address Janet J Lafever [email protected]
Scammer's email Janet J Lafever [email protected]
Type of a scam Phishing

This email claims,

(This email message has been automatically generated and sent to you because ScamPulse.com has got a complaint, claiming that your company is violating the Fair Labor Standards Act. You can download the text file with the explanation of abuse by following the link https://bit.ly/2jhxzQV)

We did not open the email.

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- Deansboro, NY, USA

Scammer's email [email protected]
Country United States
Victim Location NY 13328, USA
Type of a scam Phishing

This notification has been automatically sent to you because BBB has got a complaint, claiming that your company is violating the The Safety and Health Act.

You can download the text file with the explanation of compliant by following the link https://bit.ly/2ji5GZa

We also ask that you give a short answer in 48 hours to us. This message should contain information about what you plan to do about it.

Important note:

When replying to us, please keep the compliant ID "Incident:586779876291:472" unchanged in the subject .

ScamPulse.com

Compliant Department

Michael M Allen

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- Boise, ID, USA

Scammer's website bit.ly
Scammer's address Marion J McCart [email protected]
Country United States
Victim Location ID 83702, USA
Type of a scam Phishing

Here is the e-mail we received:

Received a second one 15 minutes later form a different department

This email message has been automatically generated and sent to you because BBB has got a complaint, claiming that your company is violating the Fair Labor Standards Act.

You can download the text file with the explication of compliant by following the link https://bit.ly/2jhysZL

We also ask that you send a message in 24 hours to us. This response should contain info about what you intend to do about it.

Important note:

When replying to us, keep the abuse ID "Incident:848580441762:268" native in the subject line.

ScamPulse.com

Abuse Department

Marion J McCart

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- Dallas, TX, USA

Scammer's email [email protected]
Country United States
Victim Location TX 75201, USA
Type of a scam Phishing

Received a phishing email.

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- Fairbanks, AK, USA

Scammer's email [email protected]
Country United States
Victim Location AK 99701, USA
Type of a scam Phishing

Hello,

Our small, family-business received an email, from someone claiming to be with BBB, which I have copied and pasted here. Please do not follow the link as I believe it to be corrupt.

The email we received is as follows:

Subject: 41657897927:72

From: Ruth K Lanier [[email protected]]

Sent: 7:54 AM

Message:

This email notification has been automatically sent to you because BBB has received a complaint, claiming that your company is violating the Fair Labor Standards Act.

You can download the document with the explanation of compliant by following the link https://bit.ly/2jiobNb

We also ask that you give a short reply in 48 hours to us. This response should contain info about what you plan to do about it.

Important notice:

When replying to us, please leave the compliant ID "41657897927:72" native in the subject .

BBB

Compliant Department

Ruth K Lanier

*End of email message*

1. The reason I did not follow the link to view the complaint is that several things look off about this email. The ScamPulse.com operates from a dot org website and people emailing from BBB would probably use a dot org email address. So the email Ruth uses looks unofficial to me and in no relation to BBB [[email protected]]. I also checked our business health on BBB and found that we are such a small company that we do not even have a profile on the BBB website.

2. I also am skeptical of the type of file linked in the email. The link is a bit.ly link which is a notorious link used by scammers to shorten and hide the real URL link. This could be used to mask the scam link so it looks more benign.

3. In her message, Ruth does not discuss the actual complaint details at all. She insists that she is sending an automatic email because someone else has filed a complaint with BBB pertaining to a Fair Labor Standards Act violation. This notion is ridiculous and the fact that we must follow the link to get details is unconvincing.

4. In her "automatic" message, Ruth spells the word "complaint" correctly only the first time the word is used. Three subsequent uses of the word are misspelled as "compliant." If she were truly sending us an automatic, BBB email I think she would have proofread her own message so that each word were spelled properly.

5. If this is indeed an email from the ScamPulse.com, by all means let me know. I feel it is a phishing email from someone posing as the BBB and I hope the BBB warns people about this scam. Thank you for the opportunity to highlight this scam. It came through all my spam filters and landed directly in my inbox, so it may be a scam that people are seeing more of lately because spam filters haven't picked up on it yet. I hope this post helps others faced with the same scam to deduce its fraudulence.

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- Seattle, WA, USA

Scammer's email [email protected]
Country United States
Victim Location WA 98107, USA
Type of a scam Phishing

See the attached email. Scammer is using the BBB name for phishing. We did not open the attachment in the email so are not certain the extent of the scam.

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- Kenmore, WA, USA

Scammer's email [email protected]
Country United States
Victim Location WA 98028, USA
Type of a scam Phishing

This notification has been automatically sent to you because BBB has received a complaint, claiming that your company is violating the Fair Labor Standards Act.

You can download the document with the explanation of abuse by following the link https://bit.ly/2jhE9XD

We also ask that you give a answer in 24 hours to us. This response should contain information about what you intend to do about it.

Important note:

When replying to us, leave the compliant ID "Incident:740010730169:986" native in the subject .

ScamPulse.com

Compliant Department

Virginia P Boutin

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- Anchorage, AK, USA

Scammer's website bit.ly
Scammer's address None
Scammer's email "Erica R Brown" [email protected]
Country United States
Victim Location AK 99517, USA
Type of a scam Phishing

Appears scammer is claiming to be the BBB and attempting to use scare tactics to garner a response from companies. Text is poorly drafted and lacks proper citations for the violations it is claiming.

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- Venice, FL, USA

Scammer's address Denise K Ibarra [email protected]
Scammer's email Denise K Ibarra ([email protected])
Country United States
Victim Location FL 34293, USA
Type of a scam Phishing

I received an email from Denise K Ibarra ([email protected]) as follows:

"This notification has been automatically sent to you because we have got an abuse, claiming that your company is violating the Fair Labor Standards Act.

You can download the document with the explication of compliant by following the link https://bit.ly/2jhSFPp

We also ask that you give a reply within 24 hours to us. This response should contain info about what you intend to do with it.

Important note:

When replying to us, please leave the compliant ID "Case:89932142611:051" unchanged in the subject line.

ScamPulse.com

Abuse Department

Denise K Ibarra "

Obviously someone trying to steal the BBB identity. For what purpose?

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- Oregon City, OR, USA

Scammer's email [email protected]
Country United States
Victim Location OR 97045, USA
Type of a scam Phishing

Received this email claiming to be from the BBB regarding a violation of The Safety and Health Act. Knew from the email address of sender it was a scam:

This email has been automatically generated and sent to you because ScamPulse.com has got an abuse, claiming that your company is violating the The Safety and Health Act.

You can download the text file with the explication of compliant by following the link https://bit.ly/2jhoUhu

We also request that you send a reply in 24 hours to us. This response should contain information about what you intend to do with it.

Important notice:

When replying to us, leave the compliant ID "Incident:69385856563:420" native in the subject .

BBB

Abuse Department

Patricia C Cowell

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- Portland, OR, USA

Scammer's email [email protected]
Country United States
Victim Location OR 97232, USA
Type of a scam Phishing

Said a Health and Safty violation complaint had been filed against our company. Incident #401104412719:039. From: Kathryn D Greer [email protected] To:xxxxx. Instructions to download and see the complaint linked to https://bit.ly//2jfitel Unfortunately I clicked on this link. I also clicked on the link, View security detail. They asked that I respond within 24 hours using the Incdent number in the subject line.

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- Sarasota, FL, USA

Scammer's email [email protected]
Country United States
Victim Location FL 34238, USA
Type of a scam Phishing

The attached email came to me supposedly from BBB. Thank you.

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