October 28, 2025 • 10 mins
Mike got an email offering free HEYDUDE shoes—sounds awesome, right? Well… something feels sketchy. Aly and the listeners put on their detective hats to dig into the details and figure out if Mike’s about to score some new kicks or get scammed.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's the B ninety three Morning Show. One of us
may possibly be getting scammed on the internet.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
So yeah, I feel like I'm pretty good about detecting
that kind of stuff. Usually, especially with like what we do,
we get a lot of emails from people claiming to
be companies or dms, even claiming to want to work
with whatever, and so you can usually, in fact, we
have training on this sniff them out. And I've never
(00:30):
had a situation where, like I was so excited to
click the link that I've ever even considered clicking a
link that is sent to me.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
That feels off. But I got this.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Email from people claiming to be Hey Dude, and the
email looks legit. It looks like an email that the
company might send. It says, we're reaching out to invite
you to our Hey Dude holiday gifting campaign. So why
out of nowhere does Hey Dude want to send me
(01:03):
a gift?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I mean, I like hay dudes.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I have some Hay dudes, but like, this email wouldn't
directly be related to anything to do with Hey Dudes.
It goes on to tell me, to summarize it a
little bit, that they're doing some campaign they want to
send me the Wally Wendy slash Wally stretch box, which
is a type of their shoe.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
And if I click this other link, I can sign
up and be a part of this campaign. I don't
have to do anything. I can post if I want to,
but I don't have to. Immediately was like, you're just
gonna send me free shoes? Yes, absolutely, And then I
went to go click the link, and I went, uh
uh oh, this feels wrong. This feels doesn't it feel
(01:50):
too good to be true? Like, why, out of nowhere
they're just gonna send me something.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Well, yeah, I mean it's a thing people influencers and
people with a following online, they get pr from different
I mean it does happen, Okay, But.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
You're saying the email is the sketchy.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Part the Well, it's just like you could see the links.
You could see the hey dude thing at the bottom
of the logo. Doesn't that look off a little bit?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Yeah? That looks a little off.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Well, I don't know. I don't know that I'd be
able to.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Tell email the rest of it, so the only the
rest of it looks fine. I looked up the email address.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
How'd they get your email.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I don't know. Ah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I have no idea I got youa So you don't
have your email in like your bio or anything or
like any links to that.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Umm, no, I don't think so okay, Oh that's a
great question.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I don't. I feel like I may have put something
in there, but I don't.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Did this come to your work email?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Okay, yay, okay, yeah, And the only way usually, the
only way you could get that is if if I
put it somewhere or we have linked up some at
some point.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Well they're our they're on the b Natty three website.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
That's okay too.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
But they didn't say hey, we're reaching out because we
love the morning show.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
None of it. It's very generic. Yeah, it does it
even say.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Hey Mike, Like even a Hey Mike would make me
go okay, this has gotta be Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
It does say hey Mike. Okay. It does say hey Mike. Okay,
but like, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
What's the email that it came from. Is that like
a at hey dude or something email where this came from.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It's just a little it's just a little off. Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
So it does say hey dude in the email, but
you would think it's influencers at partnerships dot heydude dot com.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Yeah, that seems pretty legit to me.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I looked up the email. It doesn't pop up anywhere.
It doesn't pop up anywhere.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
If you go to like the heydude website. I'm sure
you did that. Like checked to see okay.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
There was the only thing I found was another email
that looks very different, and now I clicked because I
again got excited the initial shoe part where it shows
you the two shoes that they want to they're they're
claiming to send me right, and it pops up as
the shoe. It pops up as Riley Green actually sitting
with a shoe.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Oh so this makes sense.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Then it's like his launch that he did with hey dude,
you're a guy in a country station.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
This seems legit to me.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I feel scammy.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I didn't click the other one because it says apply here,
so I'm assuming they want some info from me. I
didn't click that one yet by being scammed? Have you
been scammed? What are the signs I need to watch
out for?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Six one, six two four to two ninety three ninety three.
I think you're just getting a prepair of shoes.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
That feels too good to be true. That feels way
too good to be true. I mean, I would love that,
but I don't know. Good morning, Welcome to the ninety
three Morning Show. What's your name and where are you from?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Justin? I'm from Azinging Justin.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Have you ever been scammed or do you feel like
the hey dude email that I was sent is a scam?
Speaker 5 (04:47):
The biggest thing that throws me off with it is
I get emails just like that from Netflix claiming my
membership is invalid. It looks almost legit, but it's slightly off,
and it throws me off as well.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
What is the thing that throw like? What is it
something that I should look out for in this email?
That can that like you catch every time in the
Netflix email.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
If anything looks a little grainy or just slightly you know,
disproportionate in the logo or all small things like that
is what I noticed?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Okay, okay, was the email from Netflix itself or was
it something something at Netflix?
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Something something at Netflix.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah? See this is where this throw me off with
this email too, because it's got a lot of words
in it. It feel like, hey dude email for a
partnership would just be hey dude, partnership dot com orce.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
You know, it mean something simple.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Yeah, it seems like there's a little too much in
there for me to click anything.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Benety three Morning Show.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I'm Ali Max and I'm Mike.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
So run us through. Let's kick off the investigation. Run
us through. Why you think you're getting scammed? What happened?
What makes you feel this way? Why don't you think
this is legit?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Because I did nothing for hey dude to have them
send me this. We get emails a lot that are
either companies that want excuse us, excuse me, we want
to work with us, or companies that we work with,
and you know, we do a lot of campaigns with
(06:15):
stuff like that, endorsements and floors or whatever you want.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
To call it.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
But this was just out of the out of left field.
And sometimes you get fake emails from businesses that aren't
real or they're working they're a pr company through this
business and they want to bring in some stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
So we get emails like this all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
But there's also like scam emails that come in and
I feel that this is a scam email, but I'm
so excited about Hey dudes, yeah that I want to
believe that it's real. So it's an email from what
I'm thinking is like in I don't know what it is,
but it says it's their influencer or influencer team.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And the scam emails that you're talking about. Every once
in a while, our IT team will send like us, yes,
like a scam phishing email to see if we are
dumb enough to click it. And then those of us
that are dumb enough to click it, they will like
call out and they will be like, if this would
have been a real scam email, you probably just would
(07:13):
have got the computer a virus, like don't.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Do that, yes, and they circle it in red and yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, like you failed the test basically, So yeah, are
you thinking that this is one of those like test
phishing scam things that they're sending out.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I can't tell because I did click link already. I
read through the email. There doesn't seem to be anything
off other than the email itself is like a really
long email with hey dude at the end, and then
the logo looks a little different but also could be
the same. It just looks different on my phone than
it does on a desktop. But I clicked a link
(07:48):
and it took me to a Hey do shoe. Like
the Hey Doo shoe that they're talking about, it's actually
Riley Green sitting there with all these different color shoes.
And the whole email basically says, we want to send
you these shoes. You don't have to do anything with
it if you don't want to, we'd appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
If you did post.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Then the next link is apply here to become part
of this, and that's where you have to give them
your info. Anybody could put a link to a shoe anybody,
but the link to apply is where I think that's.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Where they're gonna give me. They're gonna be.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Like, hey, we need your address. And I didn't click
that part yet because I got too scared.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I don't want I don't want my You.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Don't want to be the guy who takes down the
entire over Hay dudes.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I like them, but I don't want to be the
guy who takes out of the company over Hey dudes.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
So how do we how do you? How can we tell?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I don't know, That's what I'm asking, That's what I'm wondering.
I've never because I Usually a red flag will come
up and I just won't I'll just delete it or
ignore it or whatever. I've never gotten this far into
the being invested in the email where I believe it
to be real? So how do I know if it's
a scam? Or have you ever been scammed? And can
tell me what to watch out for? Good morning, Welcome
(09:08):
to the B ninety three Morning Show.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
What's your name and where are you from?
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Pam from door?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
All right?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Am I being scammed by this? Hey dude email? Or
have do you?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Have you ever been scammed?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
So?
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Here's two things that I would look for. I would
go to the original email, and you know how when
you're looking at it, on the top is the email
address that it comes from. Click on it and see
what the actual email address is. That's one would And
then another way is the website that you're at. Does
it say http S or just HTPP because with the
(09:38):
S that means it's secure?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Okay, ETPs?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Is that what you said S?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
That's the one you want?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
So the the one that I clicked, yes, that's the shoe.
It just shows me the shoe. I didn't click the
apply one because I was too scared.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
Probably check the email first, Like I said, click on
the where that's from and it'll probably you'll say, hey, dude,
promotion or something like that. Click on that and see
what the actual email address is if it's a scam.
If it's a scam, it's not going to be from haydude.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Okay, what's the email.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
It's the influencers at Partnerships dot haydood dot com.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
Oh that's interesting.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
See, I think this is legit.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I don't know, it sounds it sounds fake, but if.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
They usually it's some funky letters and it makes no
sense usually if it's a scam.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Interesting, So this could be legit, is what you say.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I think it's legit.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
I would be doing some googling.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Okay, okay, thank you, thanks, you're welcome
It's the B ninety three Morning Show. One of us
may possibly be getting scammed on the internet.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
So yeah, I feel like I'm pretty good about detecting
that kind of stuff. Usually, especially with like what we do,
we get a lot of emails from people claiming to
be companies or dms, even claiming to want to work
with whatever, and so you can usually, in fact, we
have training on this sniff them out. And I've never
(00:30):
had a situation where, like I was so excited to
click the link that I've ever even considered clicking a
link that is sent to me.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
That feels off. But I got this.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Email from people claiming to be Hey Dude, and the
email looks legit. It looks like an email that the
company might send. It says, we're reaching out to invite
you to our Hey Dude holiday gifting campaign. So why
out of nowhere does Hey Dude want to send me
(01:03):
a gift?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
I mean, I like hay dudes.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
I have some Hay dudes, but like, this email wouldn't
directly be related to anything to do with Hey Dudes.
It goes on to tell me, to summarize it a
little bit, that they're doing some campaign they want to
send me the Wally Wendy slash Wally stretch box, which
is a type of their shoe.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
I guess.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
And if I click this other link, I can sign
up and be a part of this campaign. I don't
have to do anything. I can post if I want to,
but I don't have to. Immediately was like, you're just
gonna send me free shoes? Yes, absolutely, And then I
went to go click the link, and I went, uh
uh oh, this feels wrong. This feels doesn't it feel
(01:50):
too good to be true? Like, why, out of nowhere
they're just gonna send me something.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Well, yeah, I mean it's a thing people influencers and
people with a following online, they get pr from different
I mean it does happen, Okay, But.
Speaker 4 (02:05):
You're saying the email is the sketchy.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Part the Well, it's just like you could see the links.
You could see the hey dude thing at the bottom
of the logo. Doesn't that look off a little bit?
Speaker 3 (02:14):
Yeah? That looks a little off.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Well, I don't know. I don't know that I'd be
able to.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Tell email the rest of it, so the only the
rest of it looks fine. I looked up the email address.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
How'd they get your email.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
I don't know. Ah, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
I have no idea I got youa So you don't
have your email in like your bio or anything or
like any links to that.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Umm, no, I don't think so okay, Oh that's a
great question.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
I don't. I feel like I may have put something
in there, but I don't.
Speaker 4 (02:42):
Did this come to your work email?
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Okay, yay, okay, yeah, And the only way usually, the
only way you could get that is if if I
put it somewhere or we have linked up some at
some point.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Well they're our they're on the b Natty three website.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
That's okay too.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
But they didn't say hey, we're reaching out because we
love the morning show.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
None of it. It's very generic. Yeah, it does it
even say.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Hey Mike, Like even a Hey Mike would make me
go okay, this has gotta be Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
It does say hey Mike. Okay. It does say hey Mike. Okay,
but like, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
What's the email that it came from. Is that like
a at hey dude or something email where this came from.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It's just a little it's just a little off. Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
So it does say hey dude in the email, but
you would think it's influencers at partnerships dot heydude dot com.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Yeah, that seems pretty legit to me.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
I looked up the email. It doesn't pop up anywhere.
It doesn't pop up anywhere.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
If you go to like the heydude website. I'm sure
you did that. Like checked to see okay.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
There was the only thing I found was another email
that looks very different, and now I clicked because I
again got excited the initial shoe part where it shows
you the two shoes that they want to they're they're
claiming to send me right, and it pops up as
the shoe. It pops up as Riley Green actually sitting
with a shoe.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Oh so this makes sense.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Then it's like his launch that he did with hey dude,
you're a guy in a country station.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
This seems legit to me.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
I feel scammy.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
I didn't click the other one because it says apply here,
so I'm assuming they want some info from me. I
didn't click that one yet by being scammed? Have you
been scammed? What are the signs I need to watch
out for?
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Six one, six two four to two ninety three ninety three.
I think you're just getting a prepair of shoes.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
That feels too good to be true. That feels way
too good to be true. I mean, I would love that,
but I don't know. Good morning, Welcome to the ninety
three Morning Show. What's your name and where are you from?
Speaker 5 (04:39):
Justin? I'm from Azinging Justin.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Have you ever been scammed or do you feel like
the hey dude email that I was sent is a scam?
Speaker 5 (04:47):
The biggest thing that throws me off with it is
I get emails just like that from Netflix claiming my
membership is invalid. It looks almost legit, but it's slightly off,
and it throws me off as well.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
What is the thing that throw like? What is it
something that I should look out for in this email?
That can that like you catch every time in the
Netflix email.
Speaker 5 (05:08):
If anything looks a little grainy or just slightly you know,
disproportionate in the logo or all small things like that
is what I noticed?
Speaker 2 (05:16):
Okay, okay, was the email from Netflix itself or was
it something something at Netflix?
Speaker 5 (05:21):
Something something at Netflix.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Yeah? See this is where this throw me off with
this email too, because it's got a lot of words
in it. It feel like, hey dude email for a
partnership would just be hey dude, partnership dot com orce.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
You know, it mean something simple.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Yeah, it seems like there's a little too much in
there for me to click anything.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Benety three Morning Show.
Speaker 3 (05:41):
I'm Ali Max and I'm Mike.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
So run us through. Let's kick off the investigation. Run
us through. Why you think you're getting scammed? What happened?
What makes you feel this way? Why don't you think
this is legit?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Because I did nothing for hey dude to have them
send me this. We get emails a lot that are
either companies that want excuse us, excuse me, we want
to work with us, or companies that we work with,
and you know, we do a lot of campaigns with
(06:15):
stuff like that, endorsements and floors or whatever you want.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
To call it.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
But this was just out of the out of left field.
And sometimes you get fake emails from businesses that aren't
real or they're working they're a pr company through this
business and they want to bring in some stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
So we get emails like this all the time.
Speaker 2 (06:33):
But there's also like scam emails that come in and
I feel that this is a scam email, but I'm
so excited about Hey dudes, yeah that I want to
believe that it's real. So it's an email from what
I'm thinking is like in I don't know what it is,
but it says it's their influencer or influencer team.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
And the scam emails that you're talking about. Every once
in a while, our IT team will send like us, yes,
like a scam phishing email to see if we are
dumb enough to click it. And then those of us
that are dumb enough to click it, they will like
call out and they will be like, if this would
have been a real scam email, you probably just would
(07:13):
have got the computer a virus, like don't.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Do that, yes, and they circle it in red and yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
Yeah, like you failed the test basically, So yeah, are
you thinking that this is one of those like test
phishing scam things that they're sending out.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I can't tell because I did click link already. I
read through the email. There doesn't seem to be anything
off other than the email itself is like a really
long email with hey dude at the end, and then
the logo looks a little different but also could be
the same. It just looks different on my phone than
it does on a desktop. But I clicked a link
(07:48):
and it took me to a Hey do shoe. Like
the Hey Doo shoe that they're talking about, it's actually
Riley Green sitting there with all these different color shoes.
And the whole email basically says, we want to send
you these shoes. You don't have to do anything with
it if you don't want to, we'd appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
If you did post.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Then the next link is apply here to become part
of this, and that's where you have to give them
your info. Anybody could put a link to a shoe anybody,
but the link to apply is where I think that's.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Where they're gonna give me. They're gonna be.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Like, hey, we need your address. And I didn't click
that part yet because I got too scared.
Speaker 4 (08:27):
I get it.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
I don't want I don't want my You.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Don't want to be the guy who takes down the
entire over Hay dudes.
Speaker 2 (08:36):
I like them, but I don't want to be the
guy who takes out of the company over Hey dudes.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
So how do we how do you? How can we tell?
Speaker 2 (08:46):
I don't know, That's what I'm asking, That's what I'm wondering.
I've never because I Usually a red flag will come
up and I just won't I'll just delete it or
ignore it or whatever. I've never gotten this far into
the being invested in the email where I believe it
to be real? So how do I know if it's
a scam? Or have you ever been scammed? And can
tell me what to watch out for? Good morning, Welcome
(09:08):
to the B ninety three Morning Show.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
What's your name and where are you from?
Speaker 6 (09:11):
Pam from door?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
All right?
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Am I being scammed by this? Hey dude email? Or
have do you?
Speaker 3 (09:16):
Have you ever been scammed?
Speaker 2 (09:18):
So?
Speaker 6 (09:18):
Here's two things that I would look for. I would
go to the original email, and you know how when
you're looking at it, on the top is the email
address that it comes from. Click on it and see
what the actual email address is. That's one would And
then another way is the website that you're at. Does
it say http S or just HTPP because with the
(09:38):
S that means it's secure?
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Okay, ETPs?
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Is that what you said S?
Speaker 4 (09:44):
That's the one you want?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
So the the one that I clicked, yes, that's the shoe.
It just shows me the shoe. I didn't click the
apply one because I was too scared.
Speaker 6 (09:53):
Probably check the email first, Like I said, click on
the where that's from and it'll probably you'll say, hey, dude,
promotion or something like that. Click on that and see
what the actual email address is if it's a scam.
If it's a scam, it's not going to be from haydude.
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Okay, what's the email.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
It's the influencers at Partnerships dot haydood dot com.
Speaker 6 (10:13):
Oh that's interesting.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
See, I think this is legit.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I don't know, it sounds it sounds fake, but if.
Speaker 6 (10:19):
They usually it's some funky letters and it makes no
sense usually if it's a scam.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Interesting, So this could be legit, is what you say.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
I think it's legit.
Speaker 6 (10:29):
I would be doing some googling.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
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