Recently I’ve noticed that, whenever I complete a legitimate purchase/payment, not long after I get a scam email or text mimicking that purchase.
Most recently, road tax. Bought a new car last month (haven’t paid road tax in years before that) and a few days after paying and receiving the legit email, I was got a ‘your road tax hasn’t been paid’ email from a scammy address.
If I purchase from Amazon occasionally, I get fake ‘your payment is on hold’ emails. If I purchase from shops online, at some point I’ll get an email or text pretending to be from the courier (different couriers), that I need to pay the fee. I’m sure I could find more examples if I could be bothered to trawl through my emails.
The odd one could be coincidence, but it just seems to happen so consistently that they can’t all be coincidence. I also use two email addresses, so one that paypal and amazon is linked to, the other I use for things I don’t want to miss (bills related stuff etc). The scam emails tend to get sent to the email I have actually used for that purchase.
I’ve also just remembered when I took out a credit card with one bank, I started getting sales calls from another credit card company, or at-least someone pretending to be.. would banks sell that kind of data? My email provider?
I’m curious more than anything and just find it very strange! Has anyone else noticed this?