PSA: Warehouse Sale - SCAM

[alfsauve]

Don’t fall victim.  Bad actors are posting all sorts of warehouse liquidation sales and they are fake.

Seems that sporting goods, especially guns and ammo, are their specialty this month.  I’d have fallen for the S&W one, but I got so many including SIG and CCI and Nosler all at one time it was obvious they weren’t real.

If it seems too good to be true, then it’s probably a scam.

[alfsauve]

Add to that a Palmetto State Armory “online” one where everything must go.

[Rastus]

Since they only ship fedex and fedex is horrible out here I dropped my account with PSA.  Still, I hate to hear of people being scammed....

[Big Frank]

PSA has sales every day. If you go to their site, I don't know how anyone can scam you.

[MikeBjerum]

PSA has sales every day. If you go to their site, I don't know how anyone can scam you.

It's a pop-up ad. Looks legit until you look at the web address.

[Sponsor]

[Big Frank]

It's a pop-up ad. Looks legit until you look at the web address.

Maybe that's why I haven't seen it. I've always used a pop-up blocker, on every browser, on every computer to block ads like that. Plus if I click on anything suspicious Malwarebytes blocks it, and warns me that it's a phishing site, has a trojan, or malvertising, or whatever else it is. Like earlier tonight, I don't know what I clicked on but it blocked the site because of a Trojan. Not the condom, but the kind that really f****s you.

[alfsauve]

Just to be clear.

The scams are not the company's that are being mis-represented themselves.   PSA isn't scamming anybody, but somebody is using their name and logo to create a almost too good to be true clearance sale web site.  Then they are going on Facebook, using email and other social media to posts links to the scam site.

So if you see a "warehouse sale everything must go", don't click on the link but manually go to the website of the company and see if it's really true.

Scammer caught a lot of people hard with the JoAnn's going out of business sales.  They advertised, for example, items at up to 90% off.  And it was really good because people who put in an order got daily shipping updates.  For about a week.  Then the site and the updates just disappeared, as did of course their money.

Again, it's not Palmetto State Armory themselves, it's scammers using their logo and a similar web address like palmettostatearmory.online <don't go to this link>

[Big Frank]

Before you click on a link, hover your pointer over it to see what web address it shows. It it's the wrong name, or the right name but wrong domain, like .co or .net when it should be .com, you know it's a scam without even clicking on it. If you don't have a good anti-virus program, you can still get Malwarebytes Browser Guard for Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and Edge for free. The version at the Chrome store works on other Chromium based browsers, like Vivaldi and Brave. It blocks third-party trackers, malicious programs and code, scams including phishing, suspicious top level domains (TLDs), and it protects your credit card number on checkout pages. I don't use Browser Guard on my computers because I have the full Malwarebytes anti-virus, anti-malware, and privacy premium protection program. You can get a free download of it too, for a 14-day trial, and the virus scanners for Windows and Mac are always free. Computer experts always recommend that first if they think your computer is infected. It will get rid of any type of virus, etc. there is.

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