I'm being scammed and I don't know what to do.

[EarlG]

19. What Bernardo said above!

This is a learning experience, and its given you a new superpower -- the next time you get a weird random invoice for some service that you don't recall using, you'll be able to ignore it with confidence.

I get a lot of spam and I've probably received hundreds of these over the years. In the very beginning it was disconcerting -- *did* I have a subscription to Norton that was about to cost me hundreds of dollars? But that doubt is how they get you -- that's the scam. You were just trying to do your due diligence by making sure that you weren't going to mistakenly be charged for something -- they were relying on you to do that, so they could steal your bank details. Fortunately, you asked here first, and so they failed.

It can definitely feel uncomfortable when you first get fake invoices, but once you ignore a few of these and then a few days or weeks go by, and you realize that no money is actually coming out of your account, and you're not being charged for anything, and the invoice was a lie, it becomes way easier to ignore the rest.

99.99999999% of the time these emails are scams. But if you ever are genuinely unsure whether you've received a real mistaken invoice or not, set the email aside and find the company's information some other way. DO NOT click any links in the email, or call any numbers in the email. Instead find another way to contact the company directly -- Google their info, or go directly to their website -- and then find their contact info. That way you can be sure you're talking to the real company, and then you can inquire about the email.

So don't feel bad -- you now have some VERY useful new information which will help you combat the scammers in future!