Confirmation Needed For Scam

Posted: Saturday, May 16, 2026 at 04:19 PM | Categories: Phishing

I received what I knew to be a scam message yesterday, but I couldn't tell what the scam was. When I opened the email on my Android phone, all I saw was the following a subject line of Confirmation Needed for SLTT71EDUPHA and a message body of:

Hello,
We recorded activity for 40d025a1-79d7-4c76-3333-a370ba8c3669 linked with john@somedomain.com.
Reference code 3 was logged for review.
Sincerely,

There were no links at all in the message.

Still perplexed, I opened the message on my iPad and noticed that the message contained a .gif file that pretended to be an order confirmation for a large purchase from Geek Squad. Here's the image:

How did I know this was a scam?

• The "Confirmation Needed for SLTT71EDUPHA" subject line made no sense at all.
• The "We recorded activity for 40d025a1-79d7-4c76-8c83-a370ba8c3669" was even more useless. If this message was real, the number in the subject line would match the number in the message body.
• The numbers are just useless, anyone who sees the message text before seeing the image should know this is all nonsense.
• The message was supposedly from Holasco Tywonda <holascotywonda16@hotmail.com>; hotmail seriously? Not even from Geek Squad.

The brilliance of the scam message is that it doesn't try to get you to do anything except call the "help desk" to cancel this order. That eliminates all possible link checking and so on. They expect you to freak about the almost $400 order you know you didn't place and expect that in your panic you'll call the number as fast as possible to cancel it.

Unfortunately, there's no link to make the phone call, so you'd have to copy down the number before switching to the phone app to dial the number. That should be a giveaway as well.

Don't call the number, its a scam.

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