Well, here are some ideas:
It could have been the same pw that you used on another site.
They could have asked you to login and given you the URL. (For example, at one time myroku.com was being used on victims who didn’t notice the distinction from my.roku.com. Now Roku owns that name, but scammers will try to think of others.)
They could have asked you to click on a thing then another thing, and without realizing it, you’ve installed some software. (One guy on this forum got told that he needed to clean up his viruses before he could activate Roku and paid $800 for “roku support” to install some very dubious so-called security software on his PC.)
There’s a guy (probably several) who makes youtube videos where he wastes scammers time for hours. He uses a voice changing app to sound like a little-old lady, and he videos the computer screen and annotates it so you can see what’s going on. Some of these scams are both simple and very clever.
For example, a refund scam goes like: Guy tells you you have a $500 refund coming and he’s going to deposit it to your account. But first, please click on a few things. And if “the little old lady” is suspicious, she get’s all kinds of assurances. So, she installs a remote viewing/remote control program. Then the scammer (or one of several scammers on the call – it helps to have more of them than the one so one can keep you preoccupied while the other hacks) tells her to check her checking account. She does (and they can see everything she is doing.)
Then they do some stuff to distract her while one of them browses her logged-in bank account and see’s that she has a savings account too. So, he transfers $5000 from savings to checking, and then leaves the page back on the checking account showing the $5000 incoming transfer.
Then the phone scammer, tells her he has transferred her $500 refund and she can confirm that now. Well, she does, but golly, he transferred $5000 by mistake! So, then the phone scammer sounds all excited and says he’s going to lose his job and she could go to jail for fraud, so he comes up with a plan for the victim to transfer $4500 “back” to him. (Which, remember, came from her own savings account.) It’s just amazing the stuff that these people come up with.
Oh and by the way, my social security number has been cancelled due to fraudulent activity and I’ve been asked to help get a secret Nigerian cosmonaut back from space, because the poor guy has been trapped up their since the fall of Soviet Union.
Also, be extra-suspicious, because scammers often re-target the same people over and over.
Banned but back. Because why not?
