With emails that look to come from someone you know.
Look very carefully at the email address - whilst the name may be familiar - the actual email address / mailbox won't be.
Subtle difference between spoofing an email address, not full-on hacking - quite easy to do.
The one wanting Amazon...
But I don't think they are targeted, I reckon scammers buy contact phone lists and then call them all, probably working on a 0.1% - 1 in a 1000 success rate.
Just seems its the older generation who are perhaps less tech savvy, who get scammed more regularly.
Low-lifes is way too polite for these...
Slight change to all of the above - been getting automated calls to my mobile to say I will be cut of within 24 hours due to something dodgy with my IP - it's a pay as you go and despite 5+ calls of this nature is still working fine with EE
Also had a couple of recent "Life Insurance" calls...
I had a DVLA missed vehicle tax payment about to be passed to debt recovery team.
As with all these, forwarded to support@philshing.gov.uk
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