The reason we receive emails like this is because they work.
Take a quick read, then look below. How many signs that this is a scam email can YOU find?
No peeking!
Did you find some?
The email is supposedly a confirmation from a fairly major online service of a subscription renewal.
- 1. "No subject" - designed to force you to read the email and see something is wrong
- 2. From a person rather than from the company
- 3. Email address is not from the company, but from a generic email provider
- 4. Name part of email doesn't correlate with person's name
- 5. No customization - recipient's name, credit card info
- 6. Many names in the To: of the email - we all got the same invoice and transaction number?.
- 7: No corporate branding
- 8. A toll (Idaho) phone number
- 9. Lack of copyright indications
- 10. Masked transaction number - what good is that?
- 11. Highly informal tone
- 12. Does Spotify cost $115/month? No - the family plan is $16.99/month
How many more can you find?
There are many scams involving Spotify. Some ask you to login to steal your credentials, or say you didn't pay to get you to give them money. This one is pretty innocuous - until some easily fooled or pressure person calls the number, asks to have the charge removed, and winds up with a high-pressure scammer who will take over the computer and demand gift cards for a supposed over-refund that doesn't happen.
