I ordered something from PC Connection yesterday. Their site is awesome — quick and easy to get around. The ordering process was quick safe and I’m sure very secure. I have no problems with that.
However, since I was a dummy and typed in my credit card info off the top of my head, I did get a number wrong. So they sent me an email about it.
I originally deleted the email along with all of my other spam. It was from a girls’ name (@pcconnection.com but I didn’t notice that quickly enough) and the subject said Order ######## (with the real number in there) like so very many spam emails that come through the pipe.
This is what the email looks like (except I have masked the name of the sender as well as what might be the direct line etc…)
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We are ready to ship your order but the credit card has declined. Please call us at the number below between 9am and 1am Eastern Time. Thank you,
N******* ***********
Loss Prevention Analyst
PC Connection Services
Phone: 800-800-**** Fax: 603-355 ****
The name is in “reply blue” text as is half of the fax #. The hyperlink is to file:\\pcconnection.com, which of course fails. Therefore you would resort to calling the phone #. The phone # is not the same as the phone # on the website. So I came to the conclusion that my email and order # were scraped from somewhere along the pipe and not secured as I’m sure the credit card info was and they were luring me to call a different phone # to give my credit card details to god knows who!
I did call the phone # on the website and got my cc cleared up but had a long chat with a customer service rep about the fact that most professionals I know would advise everyone and anyone to ignore such an email and they should really reconsider how they communicate with their clients about stuff like this.
Sheesh!
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