Easy Equities - Be careful! Sending emails on my behalf which I did not send

[bassplayer]

Please be careful of Easy Equities.

About a year ago I referred people to easy equities in order to earn some "easy money" which easy equities were offering for all referrals.

Today I received a call from a friend asking if I legitimately sent them an email about easy equities today. He sent me a screen shot and the email comes from email address ( not easy equities) asking him to join.

How can easy equities send out emails on my behalf from my email address? I see this as fraud. Has anyone else experienced this?

I called them and they asked that I forward them an email. I am seriously considering pulling all of my funds from them, depending on their reply.

 

[backstreetboy]

FUD

 

[cupcake]

If it's what you think it's totally unethical and downright fraudulent so there is no question that you should leave them. I have to wonder if you have opted in to this at some point but still not cool.

 

[Thor]

Please be careful of Easy Equities.

About a year ago I referred people to easy equities in order to earn some "easy money" which easy equities were offering for all referrals.

Today I received a call from a friend asking if I legitimately sent them an email about easy equities today. He sent me a screen shot and the email comes from email address ( not easy equities) asking him to join.

How can easy equities send out emails on my behalf from my email address? I see this as fraud. Has anyone else experienced this?

I called them and they asked that I forward them an email. I am seriously considering pulling all of my funds from them, depending on their reply.

Mmmm does not sound right nor something they would do.

 

[saturnz]

some proof of this mail would be nice, and how would they get your friend's contact details?

 

[SauRoNZA]

Please be careful of Easy Equities.

About a year ago I referred people to easy equities in order to earn some "easy money" which easy equities were offering for all referrals.

Today I received a call from a friend asking if I legitimately sent them an email about easy equities today. He sent me a screen shot and the email comes from email address ( not easy equities) asking him to join.

How can easy equities send out emails on my behalf from my email address? I see this as fraud. Has anyone else experienced this?

I called them and they asked that I forward them an email. I am seriously considering pulling all of my funds from them, depending on their reply.

Anyone can do a send-from and appear to be someone else.

Odds are it's a scam by someone completely other than Easy Equities trying to pretend to be them to make it look credible.

Or worse your email account has been hacked and someone is sending emails on your behalf.

Highly unlikely that Easy Equities would do this...I mean what would be the benefit of sending emails on your behalf? It's not credible and they would much rather send it from their own authenticated accounts.

So as a start change your password.

 

[SauRoNZA]

More than likely someone is using the template from here...

https://www.easyequities.co.za/Profile/ReferAFriend

And changing the links to something dubious and then pretending to send it from known accounts to make it seem more legit.

Probably takes you to ransomware or some EE clone website to steal your credit card details.

Or uses alternative banking details so you deposit money into their account.


It's a good trick actually, kudos to whoever is the master mind behind it.

 

[airborne]

More than likely someone is using the template from here...

https://www.easyequities.co.za/Profile/ReferAFriend

And changing the links to something dubious and then pretending to send it from known accounts to make it seem more legit.

Probably takes you to ransomware or some EE clone website to steal your credit card details.

Or uses alternative banking details so you deposit money into their account.


It's a good trick actually, kudos to whoever is the master mind behind it.

If it's a scammer how did he get the op and the exact friend whom he previously referred e-mail addresses?

 

[Thor]

PM jono on PW, he is right up there in executive lounge so should get you an answer. Or you can call them.

 

[SauRoNZA]

If it's a scammer how did he get the op and the exact friend whom he previously referred e-mail addresses?

When they hacked his email because his password is "password123"?

Odds are he sent it to every friend and acquantance he knows as is the nature of the beast and it's a 1/100 hit ratio.

Without the actual email it's all speculation.

Social engineering is often quite simple and straight forward.

 

[Hamster]

Email header....show us the email header

 

[SauRoNZA]

So a one hit wonder fear monger post with no follow up.

I'm not even slightly surprised.

 

[chrisc]

There was a recent recommendation about using Easy Equities to invest offshore, so I registered. In the FICA form, you have to fill in a 3 character country code to indicate your country of birth. I found that only ZAR would work here, all other entries like GBR, GBJ, SCO, etc were rejected

There is no phone number or street address on the website. This is contrary to FICA rules. I sent them an email asking for an explanation and received no reply

 

[backstreetboy]

There was a recent recommendation about using Easy Equities to invest offshore, so I registered. In the FICA form, you have to fill in a 3 character country code to indicate your country of birth. I found that only ZAR would work here, all other entries like GBR, GBJ, SCO, etc were rejected

There is no phone number or street address on the website. This is contrary to FICA rules. I sent them an email asking for an explanation and received no reply

Really

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