Scam Type
Retail Business Scam
Business Name Used
Phishing
Date Reported
September 27, 2024
Postal Code
94703
Total Dollars Lost
$ 0
Scam Description
I did a Google search for Bath and Body Works. This web site was high on the list I found. It looked like a legit site. It had all the products I usually purchase from this company. It was having a 75% off sale. When I finished shopping and tried to check out, I gave my name, phone, address, email When I put in my credit card number it said it was declined (which was strange, since I always pay off this card every month). Then I put in another credit card. It was also declined. There were no phone numbers for customer service. I then found the legit web site and asked them why my cards were declined. They had no record of my trying to make a purchase. I later noticed that the site I had been on for Bath and “Body Works was Bath and Body Works.tech” instead of the legit “Bath and Body Works.com.” They were not having a 75% off sale, either. It dawned on me then that I needed to cancel my Visa and Amex cards.
Not long after, I received an email that was threatening saying that I needed to send $2000 in Bitcoin and if I didn’t they knew where I lived. They had my name, address and phone number. They claimed that I was watching porn on my phone and they had recorded me and were going to send videos of me watching porn (I never watch porn, by the way) to everyone in my address book. I wrote back that I was making an FBI report. I did try to make an online FBI report but when I wrote in the report that I had not lost any money, the report to the FBI would not go through. I then called the police and they took a copy of the threatening letter. There was an email address of the person sending the threat to me via email, with a threatening letter attached by PDF. Maybe these two situations were not related, but the timing was suspicious.
