This GENIUS Envelope Scam Steals EVERYTHING — Do THIS Now!

Welcome to Rossin Reports, I'm Jeff Rossin.What should you do if you get an empty white envelope in the mail showing up at your doorstep?You open it up, there's nothing in it.Why?It is a creepy new scam that can drain your account just like that.And they're using your curiosity and the creepiness of this.

The empty white envelope, who's sending me that?Is this a mistake?But then it gets even scarier.We're going to show you why they're doing it, who's doing it, and how to protect yourself very very easily.There's a big mistake you can make or you can protect yourself and it's a very fine line.We're going to get into that.

There's a new Facebook scam epidemic going on right now.Billions of dollars being scammed out of people on multiple social media platforms but Facebook and Instagram seem to be the worst of it.What do they have in common?They're both owned by Netta.So we're going to get into the two big scams that are happening on there right now that is clearing out people's bank accounts.I mean people are losing life savings over this because it looks incredibly real.

There's also in brand new just as we're coming on here an FBI warning about Microsoft 365.If you have Microsoft Outlook any of the Microsoft products There is a scam targeting you right now so bad, the FBI just put out a warning about it that I'm just reading about and we've just done some investigating on.We're going to tell you about that.There's a new pop -up scam on your computer.You know, you're sitting there and you get the pop -up saying, hey, your computer has an infection.You need to do this.

You need to.It's a pop -up.It's not real, but they do look real.We're going to show you who's behind it and what you should do if you get one.There's one move to make.there's only one move you need to make when this happens it's really easy and we're gonna get into that for you we got a lot to get to because the scam the scammers are out And so are we.

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The new creepy delivery scam that is exploding in 2020 2026 you get a mysterious white envelope either in the mail or through Amazon or through FedEx or through UPS It ends up on your doorstep.It looks like any other envelope.It's white to almost always white for some reason It's got a barcode on it.It's got your address on it your name you open it up and it's completely empty so you get curious and that curiosity is how they get you.Here's the very latest we're learning right now about this.Check it out.

So these are the first five packages.Candy Kratie says the white envelopes started arriving about a week ago.Did you order any of this?We did not order anything, sometimes several all at once.And what's in there?There's nothing in there.

It's just empty.And they just keep coming.It was just stuffed in there.And this is just Tissue paper?No, it's like another plastic bag.And Kratie wasn't sure why.

My package was empty.Until she saw others describing the exact same thing happening to them on TikTok.

It's not even sealed.There's nothing in it.

According to the Better Business Bureau's national scam tracker, in the last nearly three weeks,hundreds and hundreds of people across the country have reported getting the same sort of mysterious envelopes from, we found, an address in New York that doesn't exist, and supposedly from a man, a Dave with two V's, Garzaz, who does not appear to exist either.

Dave Garzaz?And who is Dave Garzaz?So I'm disappointed in you, Dave Garzaz.

And we call it a brushing scam.Robin Householder, head of the Middle Tennessee BBB, says it's all about using your information to boost someone else's ratings online.

You know, the internet is a really wonderful tool, but it's also a very frightening tool because it does give scammers so much information about us.

So here's how it works.When you receive a package, you become what's known as a verified buyer on online platforms like Amazon, Walmart, and eBay.And the sender, usually an international third party, can then use your verified buyer information to post fake products positive online reviews using your name.These fake reviews are supposed to help boost or inflate the product's ratings and sales numbers, which the sellers hope can then lead to actual sales and higher visibility on these e -commerce sites.If this sounds familiar, it's the same thing as all those envelopes of mysterious seeds that people got in the mail back in 2020.This time around, there's absolutely nothing in there at all.

In most cases, the packages are empty, though some people have reported getting hair clips or hair ties.And you got something too?I did.I got 12 baseballs.The good news is if you do get something like baseballs, you can keep it.The bad news, though, is even if you get an empty envelope, it likely means your personal information and data has been compromised.

The other thing, it's an immediate call to action for you to check your credit rating, change your passwords, see if there's any unusual activity.If you're currently not getting banking alerts for transactions,set that up for all of your credit cards.

And if the package appears to be from a third -party retailer, contact the retailer and ask them to remove any reviews under your name.And finally, if you get one of these packages, be prepared.Is it gonna stop?When's it gonna stop?How do we make it stop?

And because you accepted the package, that scammer now knows that the address and the name is legitimate, which means they're probably going to use it more often.

Yeah, once they know that there's actually a person there you become a serious target for even worse scams But this one is actually even more diabolical.They mentioned the fake reviews That's one of the reasons they do it But the real reason they do it is to get into your phone to get into your life to drain your accounts How do they do that?They put a QR code.If you went back and watched some of that video, there's usually a QR code in there on the actual envelope.And the way they do it is you scan that, they can put malware, spyware on your phone, so they're infecting.So anything you type, they're watching.

That's the real prize.Check out clip two.

Packages that arrive in a brushing scam have QR codes inside the box and they're not helpful.They can send you to phishing sites, steal your login information, drop malware, even collect device data the second that you scan them.You think you're being polite or helpful or just curious about what you've received.Meanwhile, you've confirmed your address is valid and your phone is an easy target.The reason they use QR codes specifically is that QR codes bypass your email filters and your spam folder.There's no preview, no hover, no warning, just instant trust because it came inside of a physical box.

Yeah, look, QR codes are a part of our life.And in fact, we use them here sometimes.We create QR codes for you becauseit's easy to scan on the screen.The difference is from coming from a trusted source versus something unsolicited you are getting in the mail.Never ever scan something that's unsolicited.

Now, if you do get one of these, I want to walk you through exactly what to do because a lot of times they're doing this through Amazon, right?They're right on the back of Amazon.That's how they're getting your address information because they bought your info on the dark web and some data breach going through Amazon to use their contacts.All right, so here's what you do if you get one of these in the mail.I'm gonna walk you through it.Let's call my screen up.

This is my computer right here, and I am going to walk you through this.So on Amazon, let me just get my paper out so I can give you the exact instructions.This is actually called a brushing scam.That's another word for it.So what we're gonna do is right into Google, I want you to do Amazon, Brushing scam Amazon.That's the way I did it before brushing scam Amazon if I can spell Okay, so you see it on the screen.

We're hitting that you're gonna scroll down here to Forget these sponsored results you like these sponsored results skip those that's not real.That's just people who are buying ads scroll down here to Amazon .com you see right in the middle of the page it says report unsolicited packages or brushing scams from Amazon Amazon .com hit that you're gonna get this page.It's gonna bring you right to Amazon right Midway through the page you see where it says report unwanted package form right there I'm circling it with my mouse that you want to hit that and by the way if you're watching this and it's going too fast pause the video do it on your computer unpause do all that so you're going to hit report that before you report the package check the boxes that match the package is addressed to you or someone in the household a receipt is inside the package the products all that there's a gift slip inside and they're going to ask youfor the package tracking information Give them that because if it's in their system, they'll be able to track that down Then you hit submit report now The reason you want to do all of that is because once you tell Amazon about it, they can ban that seller immediately So this doesn't happen to anyone else and it cuts them off immediately.

The other thing you should do is And also Amazon will send you instructions on what to do if they find out it was really a scam.And the other thing you should do is change your password immediately on Amazon if you get one of these packages once you submit that form.But it's very, very dangerous.It's very creepy because it comes to your doorstep and it's got your name and address on it And again, they're using curiosity like who's this Dave guy?Why'd he send it to us?We got a lot of other breaking news coming in right now about these other scams on Facebook a job scam Microsoft scam a lot to get to first quick word from our sponsor be right back If you're on Medicare, you may be on a plan you never should have been on in the first place.

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Facebook's the worst offender, but it's really all social media scams.And next time you guys say, oh, I would never fall for that, guess how much money was lost?This year to it two billion dollars two billion dollars into the hands of these scammers They are they are armed with money and it allows them to buy technology.These are real operations and Every photo every check -in every post that you make every comment you make on social media You can be targeted by these scammers and we're gonna get right into it here because Facebook according to the the new report is the leading platform for scams and guess who else is on that list?Instagram and WhatsApp.And guess who owns all three of them?

Meta, Meta, Meta, Meta, they own Facebook, they own WhatsApp, they own Instagram, and those are the top three platforms for scams right now.And the real problem is, it is rising at an alarming rate in 2020 to 26, watch this.

Americans lost a staggering $2 .1 billion to scams that started on social media platforms last year.Now, that's not just a big number.It's an eight -fold jump since 2020.And here's what's really concerning.Nearly one in three victims say the scam started with something they saw while just scrolling.And we're talking fake ads.

bogus online stores, even investment schemes that look completely legitimate.And it's costing people more than a billion dollars by themselves.So why is this happening?Well, scammers are using the same tools real businesses use, targeting you based on your interest.what you post, even who you follow.

Yeah we are giving scammers all of the information they need and they can tell so much about us so they can make it sound like they know us and they're getting very good at impersonating real businesses which leads us to one of the she mentioned the investment scam we're going to get to that in a second but the other top one is the fake job scam that is literally pulling people's life savings because these jerk scammers These monsters are going after people when they are most vulnerable.That's when they prey on them.And when are you most vulnerable?When you're out of work.When you're looking for a job, you're looking to pull it any possible string.You're on LinkedIn.

You're on Facebook actively trying to find a job trying to get people who have work to communicate with you and the scammers see that and They immediately are able to jump in and fill that void one woman was targeted Great news.She got the job bad news.She lost her life savings a very smart woman trained in cyber Trained on the internet and it happened to her on Facebook.

Watch what happened She lost everything she's worked for within a mere month and a half.How much money did you lose?

$176 ,000 learned a lesson for sure to share it.

The 60 year just finished a contract area software company.

Th started searching for new know, you get these email got part time job for you in the situation I was inOK, let me try it.

Dawn says a woman named Lily told her this job was with Facebook's Ad Management Center, explaining she would be placing ads at the platform as they're testing AI.It's kind of in a beta state right now.

So all the software buzzwords that my career was in software, so it seemed legitimate.

And I thought, huh, OK.According to Don, she was paired with a training mentor who was coaching her during the onboarding process.But aside from one call, only communicated with her on WhatsApp.

So I had to take money from my bank via wire transfer.into a crypto platform and then transfer that into the Facebook platform.And it sat there in a little digital wallet that I would then pull from to place the ads.

John says that should have raised a red flag at the time.So when you logged on to this app, it had your actual Facebook messages in it?Yes.Every single message?

It looked totally like it.It's the same icon, logged in with the same credentials as my normal personal Facebook.

It was all the same.She thought it was legit.In the weeks that followed, Dawn says she placed a slew of Facebook ads, and her account showed huge profits.At six weeks, she had one final ad to place before cashing in.They tricked me.

Yeah, and when she placed that final ad, that's when they disappeared with all of her money.And the problem is, as she said, smart woman, they know how to speak the jargon.They are smart.I'm sorry, I'm gonna say it.These scammers are geniuses.That's why we have to be smarter.

Obviously.It seems obvious at least.Never, ever, ever pay money to work somewhere.It doesn't work like that, they pay you.Even with a promise like this.And there is a whole new world out there of placing Facebook ads, crypto, there are companies that are doing it, so it's very hard to know the difference between real and fake.

The other major scam going on, we alluded to it a few minutes ago, is the fake investment scams.This has taken people for over one billion Billion dollars the post look legit.The scammers do sound like financial experts.They are experts on the markets experts at investing And you fall for it and this particular family was on whatsapp.Thank you meta and lost $800 ,000.How does that happen?

Here's how.

Gary Dunaway built a career in cash register sales, saving every penny along the way.He and his wife, Mindy, looked forward to spending retirement playing golf, going on vacations, and watching their grandkids grow up.

You can make one mistake and it can change your life forever.

That mistake cost the Dunaways big.$800 ,000.

That was 800 ,000.

A couple of months ago, Jerry says he was contacted through WhatsApp about a crypto investment opportunity.What started out as a low -risk venture brought high returns.It turned into bigger investments until Jerry tried to access his money one day and found he was scammed.And you swear to God you're talking to that person.

It's that sophisticated now, and that's dangerous.

The scammers are utilizing capitalizing on this by generating trust.from these investors.

Emmer University professor Rajeev Garg says cryptocurrency isn't as regulated as traditional cash, so you could take your money anywhere and access it without as many restrictions.But that freedom, he says, can come at a cost and a big risk, especially when someoneget involved.

The scams are very easy because there's no oversight.You cannot go to a bank and say, look, my money's stolen.Can you give it back?Because the bank wasn't even involved in those scenarios.

Exactly.Yeah, the banks aren't involved in crypto.So how do you protect yourself from this?There is a way.There is something you should do called poisoning your own data.I had never heard about this.

Why would you poison your own data?How do you do it?What does it do for you?I wanna bring in Arjun Bhatnagar from Cloaked, which is a digital privacy platform and app.It's a great, great company you have there.Arjun, thanks for joining us.

So what does it mean to poison your own data and how does it help us and how do you do it?

For sure.So I appreciate having me on today.So thinking about poisoning your own data, the way to approach that and why that term exists is that we know, as you saw the last couple of videos, people are being targeted, their data is being harvested, sold, shared, aggregated.So we've had our data for so long.How do you fix it?So the approach is the fact that scammers, people who are out to get you, AI systems, they always want the most relevant, up -to -date information.

So nobody wants to know where you were 15 years ago when you see that brushing scam.They want to know where you are now.So that's where the secret lies, where can I start putting out not authentic information, still working, still real, but not my actual data?So it becomes very confusing.Who's Arjun?Where does he live?

What's going on?Right now, for me, if you looked me up, you'll have no idea what state, what location, what even my phone number is.

So you're basically what, just lying on, I mean, not lying, but is it stopping putting the things out about where you actually are?Is it creating a whole separate account?or keeping your real one, but just kind of giving some misdirects?Yeah.

So how it works and how you approach data poisoning is I'm not saying go get a new phone or change your phone number right away.Keep your information.What's your goal is to devalue your actual data.That's your goal.So you can use services.We run a company called Cloak where we help create phone numbers, emails, passwords, credit cards to mask your actual information.

But everything routes back to your actual phone, your actual email, actual credit card.But now you've actually created a virtual one.that replaces your existing one.And there are other companies that do this, but Cloak Philly made it all in one.But the idea is that the secret is that nobody, they think that your actual phone number, oh, that's an old one.They're not using it anymore.

They think these new ones, these are your actual information.And the goal is hackers and attackers, it's just like a business.They're purchasing data, harvesting data.So they don't want to buy old, stale, incorrect information.So you want to make your old information be stale, cheap, wrong, and your new data look actually more valuable, more consistent, because you just made a purchase using that phone number.You opened up an account using that email.

People say, well, that's actually probably the right one.Even if your secret Gmail is still existing, they'll think that's old and unused.

So you're a fan of these virtual credit cards because I get all my credit card company all the time is I get a virtual credit card.And what that does is it just basically randomly creates numbers for every purchase, right?But it's going back to your credit card.So like you're never putting out there what your actual credit card information is.

That's exactly right.The approach is that can I actually create a credit card, email, phone number, password, a new what we call identity for every single situation such that it's not clear what's right.So I have 2 ,000 phone numbers, every account,every purchase of burger I buy, they all require my phone number.I don't give my actual one out.

Got it.And at Cloak, I know you help people with this.You brought a video about how we can kind of create a new identity on Facebook.Can we roll that and you walk us through this real quick?

For sure.So what you're seeing in front of you is our Cloak platform.We're on mobile apps, we're on desktops, you're seeing a desktop, but you can type in Facebook on our website at my .cloak .com and we can see that you have now a new identity, just like a password manager.And we're creating a phone number in real time, an email address, even a username and password.

And what we suggest is that we can help change it for you, but on your own, you could just go to settings on Facebook and replace that information.And when he talked about the Facebook scams, it's not Facebook that's necessarily scamming you per se, but the fact is they're making it so easy to share your data with other companies, fake businesses, and so your information's being shared.This now makes it such that your information being shared is not your actual data.

That's amazing.All right.That is great information because we can change our front facing information, but we can make it so it points back to us behind the scenes, which is really cool.So you're not losing anything.That's great.Arjun, co -founder of Cloaked, which is a great platform for people to help you with privacy and security.

Thank you so much, Arjun.I appreciate your time.I got to tell you about a new Microsoft 360 scam that is breaking right now.And the FBI just put out an urgent warning about this.So I'm just going to read it because it's just coming in.It's targeting Microsoft 365 users.

And that's if you use Outlook, if you use Microsoft OneDrive.So here's the trick.The email tells you to go to the real Microsoft and they give you and they bring you to the Microsoft verification.page and That's where they really get you the scammers are there.It's a fake link, but it looks entirely real you pump it in It's giving them a verification code there then inside of your email inside of your one drive, which holds a lot of your information Here's what we know right now about it The FBI put out a warning to be on the alert for cyber attackers trying to gain access to Microsoft 365 user accounts without needing to know your password.

It's just a matter of it looking real enough to entice you to click on something, to enter information.Once that happens, you're the next victim.

To avoid being the next victim, cybersecurity expert Len Gonzales says don't be a clicker.

Don't be that person that just clicks, clicks, clicks, clicks away, and then on the back end, it sits there and has to explain why you've just compromised a complete computer network.

On the alert, the FBI offers tips on how to avoid being scammed by restricting device code flow to limit or block device authorization codes that can help prevent or limit this style of an attack.

If you get anything that asks you to sign a digital document, you always got to kind of question that.Anything that makes you do something that's not typical or not normal via email or via phone call or via text, if it doesn't feel right, then you live by that old adage, if it doesn't feel right, it's probably not right.

Yeah, so here's what I want you to do right now if you're a Microsoft customer because you may have already fallen for this And not realized it because the FBI is just kind of catching on as good as they are The scammers are the ones playing off that so here's what I want you to do go into your Microsoft account Click on settings and look for any unknown devices You can get a list of devices that are currently on your account if you see any that hey, that's not mine Immediately kick them off report it to Microsoft as fraud, but alsoimmediately change your password there right then.Also, get rid of your old devices.You sell them back sometimes, you give them back to Apple, you give them back to Samsung, they can end up in the hands of somebody else's refurbished, and then suddenly they have access to your account by accident.So kick off your own old devices, and if you see any unusual devices on there that you've never owned, again, change your password and report that as fraud.You should do that on Microsoft, you should do it on everything, but especially Microsoft right now.

There's one other scam I gotta tell you about, Literally popping up.It is a pop -up scam It's when you're sitting on your computer and this is exploding right now, but it's kind of what's old is new again You're sitting on your computer and you get a pop -up that your device is infected and there's a problem with it and Actually things freeze around it and you feel like you can't do anything on your computer So it actually does feel like it's from your computer, but it's not It's a scammer literally paying for a specialized pop -up ad.

That's all it is And there's one thing you can do to protect yourself from it, but this is what it looks like I want to show you what it looks like when you get a roll clip 8 and your computer it starts with a pop -up message like this right in the middle of your computer screen it tells you that Access to this PC has been blocked for security reasons.Then you're urged to contact Windows support at a phone number that's in the message.Above this is another message stating, you must contact us immediately so that our engineers can walk you through the removal process over the phone.In many cases, your computer will be frozen when you see this message.You'll be unable to use your cursor or make the message go away.So here's what you should do.

Do the exact opposite of what the message is telling you.Do not call any phones.numbers that appear on your screen.The easiest way to remove this message and get your computer back is to reboot or restart your computer.Power it down, power it back on.More than 90 % of the time, that makes this message just go away.

If it doesn't go away, you need to contact a computer repair shop to remove it.If you do call the number on the screen, you are walking right into a scammer's trap.They're going to send you to a series of websites.claim they're fixing your machine, and it ends up costing you money.

Think about that.And by the way, real technicians actually, the problem is some of it is legit, not that, but there are like certain companies that will say, hey, let me take over your screen.Never unsolicited from a pop -up ad.Please, never let anyone have access to your screen.Do not call that phone number.Just shut off your computer.

It's not real.It's just a pop -up ad and I want to show you we have a another example of a scare where pop -up This is what it looks like.This doesn't look like a regular ad I get it admin login you they want you to type in your username and password of your computer of your computer and they're able to watch the keystrokes guys do not believe a pop -up just shut your computer off please please believe me that's the easiest thing to do or call as the uh news reporter said your local repair shop really hope this helped it's it's It's terrible, the world that we have to live in, but we are staying one step ahead of them.If you enjoyed this video, there's a brand new Gmail scam that is exploding right now that I just did a deep dive investigation on.If you have a Google account, if you have Gmail, you need to see this, okay?on that video on my YouTube channel as well.

We'll see you next time.