Help, I’ve just been scammed

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I was just on Facebook looking at a new shop in my town. I checked out the person on FB and there was a post on there from one of her followers promoting a £2 box of goodies from a well known shop.

I stupidly went through the motions and bought it. Verified it on my credit card via their security. Then it took me to another security sight at which point I thought, hmmm, something not right. So I bailed out.

Now I’ve got an email saying I’ve signed up to a Dutch internet privacy service which is free for 14 days then £50.

I didn’t!

What can I do to sort it?

I am an utterly stupid cow.

You are not a stupid cow. These scams are everywhere and it’s a nightmare!

Call your credit card company and tell them. Tell them about the sign up too. Cancel the card.

Report the incident to accident fraud.

It can happen to anyone OP.

What a bag of turds.

What’s concerning is that it was on someone’s FB profile, like a friend, saying they had done this and here’s the pictures of the beauty box. So, a friend of someone I know. Looks real yes?

Now that “friends” post has miraculously disappeared.

Your friend might have been hacked. Cancel your card if you haven’t already

These scams can be so believable nowadays. I’m usually really vigilant with them all but stupidly fell for one when I entered a competition on a fb page for a well known tourist attraction. I got tagged by what looked like the official page saying I had won and to fill in my details. Being in a rush that day I just did it, then immediately after though ah crap, I shouldn’t have had to enter card details for that should I? It was a scam page that had targeted the official competition.

I phoned my bank and cancelled my card immediately and it’s been fine, but I felt like such an idiot when I’m usually so cautious on these things. Extra disappointment on top of realising I hadn’t actually won a 3 night family trip away!

Absolute scumbags.

So, this morning I was checking out a new fitness studio opening up. It was on FB. I was looking at the owners profile and a “friend” of hers posted about how her mum had been shoved out of a well known shop, and how she was sharing that you can get a beauty box for £2 if you fill in a simple questionnaire. I stupidly filled it in, it went to my bank for authorisation, then another website for a second security confirmation. At this point I thought, hmmmm. So I backed out.

Then I got emails from a Dutch registered co. Called Surf-Anywhere saying I’d signed up to a subscription free for 14 days then £41.92. I hadn’t.

I froze my card, then had to do the school run, and just called my bank. The b’stds tried to take £41.92 off my cc but it was declined due to frozen card.

Cc cancelled and I’ve not lost money, just an hour of my time, and increased stress.

Beware of things which are too good to be true and are in fact Trojan horses.

You were on a random person’s Facebook page, looking through their posts and the comments on their posts, you saw a comment from some other random person offering a £2 beauty box so you clicked the link and filled out your credit card detail? Was it your first day on the internet?

Look at any profile of anyone with even a slight bit of visibility (so a shop owner would do) and look at their comments; full of random people posting links with “hey, look what I got for 1p.” It’s just spam. You don’t follow the links. Why would someone post something like that as a comment on a public post on someone’s page? Because they’re scamming!

At least you stopped the payment but be more careful online. Don’t follow random links in comments. Only go through official social media pages and check out the company first.

I've been scammed by them as well I had to go to my bank.

Your not stupid, I was about to put my card number in when I noticed it was not on Shein but the company you named, so I thought I would look for reviews so thanks for putting this on here x

Out of the Blue Surf-anywhere.com from Netherlands charged me £41.92. I got to contact my bank to see if I can get my money back