The problem with all these warnings is that they're most often a report of someone else's experience. The individual passing on the warning may indeed believe the alert to be genuine. . . but then when it's tracked back (if it's tracked back) it turns out that the friend who sent the warning was actually a friend of another friend to whom it (whatever it might be) happened to. Over the years I've gotten sick weary and tired of my inbox being cluttered with crap from people telling me 'Microsoft says this' and 'Kaspersky has verified that' when you know for a fact that microsoft never says anything, ever, and that Kaspersky's info certainly wouldn't figure within the world of the individual seemingly responsible for the original email. As to the cashback 'scam', I have never, ever, at any time, anywhere, been asked if I would like cashback and then had it added into the bill without me knowing. It's perfectly obvious that if I went home, and saw the cashback payment there, I'd be back onto the store immediately. So would anyone. All grocery store chains are alive to possible staff abuse which is why cashback slips **have to be signed by the recipient.** What's tragic about the false-flagging of scams is that they have the potential to make folks blase about real scams: I can remember the first Cryptolocker victims, and how many folks said ah, it's just another email hoax doing the rounds . . .
Gotta dash. A neighbour tells me a colleague has a relative who has a friend who has a neighbour who has just returned from a disastrous holiday in France with his deceased grandma tied to the roofrack of his i30 Tourer. Not sure why I need to know but he thought I might wish to be alert to the overloading of vehicles with extinct seniors. Well, er, yeah: I am. I brought back an entire party of deceased pensioners in the boot of mine.
