Daily 'thank you for your order' scam

I just delete immediately when I see these scams, but unfortunately, I can’t my husband to realize that it’s a scam - caught him on the phone last week with a heavily accented agent in India who was trying to get him to download some sort of software to allow him to “cancel” the order that he never placed...

Yup! I see lots of those in the spam box. Usually relating to a cloud storage box. I know I don’t have any thing over flowing in there nor do I have anything to pay for. 

“There’s a sucker born every minute.”

Likely Originator: Some sources attribute the quote to David Hannum, a banker who was discussing the gullible people who flocked to the "Cardiff Giant," a famous side-show hoax that P.T. Barnum was trying to buy.

One I get often is a notice that my credit card was rejected for payment of my (free) email account.

I suppose if one in a million people fall for it, scammers will continue to operate.

Same. And yes, there are many gullible/stupid people in the world. The text messages I’ve been getting lately tell me that USPS could not deliver my package and to “click here” to confirm my shipping address (or whatever). One of my guilty pleasures it watching a weekly show on YouTube called scamfish (or catfish, one or the other), where the experts help people determine if the man or woman they have been talking to online for X number of years, and to whom they have given anywhere between $10,000 to $200,000 or more, is a real person. This is often despite the fact that these people have been watching the show themselves and are well aware of all the red flags they should be picking up on. The scammers often work on oil rigs or they are in the armed forces and their superiors have frozen their assets, blah, blah). The best ones are those of people who are sure they are talking to celebrities like Britney Spears, Mark Zuckerberg, etc., who, for whatever reason, don’t have access to their millions of dollars and need help buying a plane ticket so they can visit the person they’ve grown to love. It’s simply unbelievable.

I once received an email at my work saying they hacked my camera and they know what kind of videos I watch and they will show the video they captured to all my friends, family and employer what I’ve been doing in my spare time if I don’t send them a few hundred dollars in bitcoin. Which is funny, since our work computers didn’t have cameras. :)