Scams like these

[cove]

Thanks for letting us know prozac. Drron will be devastated too.

 

[drron]

Absolutely devastated.Finished of a bottle of port.I might need some Prozac.:shock:

 

[QF WP]

A new batch of emails hit my email account early this morning:

-----Original Message-----
From: Google Docs [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, 2 June 2017 4:53 AM
To: QF WP <work email address>
Subject: You have received a new document from sales@work name .com.au!

<link redacted>
You have received a new document through Google Docs from sales@work name .com.au!

View Document <link redacted>

Thank You



© 2017 Google

The funny thing is that I don't have a sales email address and I wouldn't be send myself a link at 4:53 and 5:02am - I was doing some of my best sleeping :shock:.

 

[suze2000]

I got a letter that I thought was a scam stating that I was owed about $4.5K and that the company in question would, for a small fee, tell me where to find out about it, or for a larger fee, get the money back for me.

My first thought was "bull****", especially after I google the sender and the company had only existed 4 months. But I did some more googling and found through the Aus Govt's MoneySmart website that I AM owed that much money! Woo hoo hoo!

I still don't know though whether the original letter was a scam or not. Who knows if they would actually have forwarded the money to me, given the lack of history for the company?

 

[cove]

I have collected some actual money from that "official money search site" so it isn't always a scam.

 

[suze2000]

No the money search site is real, but I wonder if the original letter may still have been. It did not point me to anything, only promised for a fee to help me get it.

 

[cove]

Yes I did get a fee for service letter too and it was legit.

 

[moa999]

People search the register themselves then try and make money off it.
You may not have looked yourself otherwise

 

[rainbowgirl]

Just got an email with the subject line ORDER from an email address (EXPORT)[email protected]

It has a zip file.

I do have a couple of online orders and parcels in transit at the moment from companies I haven't ordered from before, Amazon USA and Booktopia. I'm also getting tracking emails from Australia Post who I've never given my email address to. The Aus Post ones are real as they relate to the goods I have ordered so I'm guessing Amazon and Booktopia have shared my email address with them.

I'm wondering who else has been sniffing the email address when it was passing between these companies. I've heard of these scam parcel emails with zip files but this is the first I've received. Has anyone else seen this email address pop up on these fake emails?

 

[Major]

I got a letter that I thought was a scam stating that I was owed about $4.5K and that the company in question would, for a small fee, tell me where to find out about it, or for a larger fee, get the money back for me.

My first thought was "bull****", especially after I google the sender and the company had only existed 4 months. But I did some more googling and found through the Aus Govt's MoneySmart website that I AM owed that much money! Woo hoo hoo!

I still don't know though whether the original letter was a scam or not. Who knows if they would actually have forwarded the money to me, given the lack of history for the company?

I received a similar letter but baulked at their fee. After much googling and searching I found $3.5K on the WA register from a takeover and company name change.

The money was transferred into my A/c last month.

I then searched each state register of unclaimed money and found $250 for my son on the Qld register and $55 for our super fund on the Sydney register.

 

[cove]

Yes I look up family and friends on those registers and it has been quite worthwhile.

 

[JohnK]

Hotel scam yesterday. Housekeeper wanted THB600 to clean food stains from bed sheet. THB100 at the laundry.

 

[prozac]

Hotel scam yesterday. Housekeeper wanted THB600 to clean food stains from bed sheet. THB100 at the laundry.

Yours, I hope. :shock:

 

[TheRealTMA]

Hotel scam yesterday. Housekeeper wanted THB600 to clean food stains from bed sheet. THB100 at the laundry.

So who paid for the housekeepers time taking the sheet to the laundry?

 

[prozac]

Did you end up sleeping on the edge of the bed...

 

[JohnK]

Yours, I hope. :shock:

Yes my stains.

So who paid for the housekeepers time taking the sheet to the laundry?

My wife took bed sheet to laundry that is ~100m from our hotel. We are picking up bed sheet tomorrow.

You don't see the scam? My wife saw straight through the scam when she saw the bed sheet in the room after the room was cleaned. I've been coming to Thailand way too long. Just as well it didn't happen in 3 days time when we are checking out or the housekeeper could be out of a job. Do you understand that? I would have gone to management calling the housekeepers bluff. But I'm not a bad person so not taking this further for now.

I hate being ripped off.

 

[Buzzard]

Have been receiving phone calls about the "accident that was not your fault". If I have time when next they ring I might play along for a while.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Yes my stains.


My wife took bed sheet to laundry that is ~100m from our hotel. We are picking up bed sheet tomorrow.

You don't see the scam? My wife saw straight through the scam when she saw the bed sheet in the room after the room was cleaned. I've been coming to Thailand way too long. Just as well it didn't happen in 3 days time when we are checking out or the housekeeper could be out of a job. Do you understand that? I would have gone to management calling the housekeepers bluff. But I'm not a bad person so not taking this further for now.

I hate being ripped off.

Yes a terrible scan over AUD$20. Never can be too careful, especially with spilled chocolate.

 

[JessicaTam]

Yes a terrible scan over AUD$20. Never can be too careful, especially with spilled chocolate.

I can't see how this is a scam? To wash a pair of trousers at a hotel might cost $10-15. Go to a laundromat and it would be $2. Same sort of ratio for a bedsheet I would think.

 

[JohnK]

I can't see how this is a scam? To wash a pair of trousers at a hotel might cost $10-15. Go to a laundromat and it would be $2. Same sort of ratio for a bedsheet I would think.

How is it a scam?

Bed sheet left in room. Wants to have a quiet word with wife. Wants THB600 to clean old, worn bed sheet that would cost less to replace. Doesn't want want us to mention anything to management when challenged.

Sorry but that is a scam.

TheRealTMA, we are obviously different. I won't tolerate being ripped off/scammed THB10, let alone THB500.

P.S. Someone bought some Raybans yesterday for THB200. The original asking price was THB1800. They are a bad person right? They onsell the Raybans for GBP10 easily back in the UK. How dare they spoil the livelihood of the scammers.... Umm sorry.... hard working sellers....