Scams like these

[cove]

The ANZ scam is as weak as the NAB scam.

 

[TheRealTMA]

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....

Yes absolutely we are different! And you paid the premium of around $11 for the room with old worn bed sheets, dirty floors, and, had your wife clean the floors. If I tried that, not only would I not have a wife anymore but probably no testicl_s as well.

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

Yes absolutely we are different!........ If I tried that, not only would I not have a wife anymore but probably no testicl_s as well.

I like your wife !

 

[leadman]

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.

Yes, just the norm for a normal traveller in BKK! (and anywhere else for that matter) JW Marriott charges over $10 per shirt, down Soi 4 $2. Socks in JW are charged more than what I paid for them!!!! in London the laundry where I get mine done actually are the agents for the hotel where I stay. It cost me around 25% of what the hotel would charge, so they make a nice profit for dropping off/ picking up.

 

[JohnK]

Yes absolutely we are different! And you paid the premium of around $11 for the room with old worn bed sheets, dirty floors, and, had your wife clean the floors. If I tried that, not only would I not have a wife anymore but probably no testicl_s as well.

My wife loves staying here. I love staying here. We are ~200 metres from beach and ~200 metres from golf bar.

We got a bad housekeeper. My wife wanted to clean the floors. I didn't ask her. One of the staff is smoking on the stairwell outside our room and smoke gets inside.

We will stay here again.

 

[TheRealTMA]

My wife loves staying here. I love staying here. We are ~200 metres from beach and ~200 metres from golf bar.

We got a bad housekeeper. My wife wanted to clean the floors. I didn't ask her. One of the staff is smoking on the stairwell outside our room and smoke gets inside.

We will stay here again.

Play the topic, not the OP.

 

[drron]

Yes absolutely we are different! And you paid the premium of around $11 for the room with old worn bed sheets, dirty floors, and, had your wife clean the floors. If I tried that, not only would I not have a wife anymore but probably no testicl_s as well.

Though I am sure I would have suffered that fate as we walked through the door!

 

[QF WP]

Okay, now back on topic after a brief interlude...

I got an email from the ATO today (a real one with .gov.au address) and it prominently mentioned:

Don't get scammed
The ATO never asks for your confidential details by email. To confirm this email is from the ATO go to ato.gov.au/onlinesecurity

Look suspicious?
Don't take chances, forward suspicious emails to [email protected]

 

[love_the_life]

Not really a scam but annoying marketing from QF:



Followed by this opening screen if you click through. I suppose at least they do tell you they will ring you. I have had them ring after I had a mosey around the website in the past.

 

[coles525]

2 scam emails that I actually decided to read:

Somehow I'm required to "cancel my email cancellation", otherwise my email service will end within a few days.

Also, never new woolies had an hourly prize draw? Notice the snail mail address..

 

[MEL_Traveller]

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

This. We got a similar letter. I knew to go look at the unclaimed monies register and found it myself. But others wouldn't. Yeah there's a fee, but some would think that some money is better than no money.

 

[QF WP]

coles525, seems that address has been used in the scam game for quite some time (got to love a Google search)...

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

"Five people have been charged over a cold calling scam that allegedly milked $30 million out of about 2000 victims across Australia"

Five charged over alleged $30 million cold call scam

"Queensland police raided a series of Gold Coast businesses on Wednesday, along with a home and a business in Brisbane, arresting four men in their 30s and 40s and a 41-year-old woman............

Bogus websites allegedly supported the syndicate, operating under names including ESL, Eurosoft, OWS, OW Sydney, One Wealth, GTA, GlobalTech, GTA Australia, GT Australia, GT Alliance, TRP, TRP Solutions, Thorne Roberts Price and Thomson Rowe Partners."

 

[QF WP]

Latest scam (authenticated as such by my IT guru, who confirmed we use no such service):

-----Original Message-----
From: ADP Billing [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, 15 June 2017 1:44 AM
To: QF WP <my email address>
Subject: Your ADP bill 710040 for (my email address) is ready!

Your monthly bill for the ADP Services is available for your review.

Please visit the link below, to view your invoice in Microsoft Word:

<link redacted>

Thank you for using Automated Data Processing

Important: Please do not reply to this email because it has been sent from an unattended mailbox.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Got a call from "Telstra" last Friday saying that because we had been illegally downloading programs, out internet would be terminated in 14 days unless...

He didn't get any further since we'd just got off a plane from LHR on the Thursday.

In hindsight, I should not have been so quick with my abuse since it may have been interesting to see hi justify the charges and accusations since our internet had been turned off for the last month...

 

[TheRealTMA]

"Five people have been charged over a cold calling scam that allegedly milked $30 million out of about 2000 victims across Australia"

Five charged over alleged $30 million cold call scam

"Queensland police raided a series of Gold Coast businesses on Wednesday, along with a home and a business in Brisbane, arresting four men in their 30s and 40s and a 41-year-old woman............

Bogus websites allegedly supported the syndicate, operating under names including ESL, Eurosoft, OWS, OW Sydney, One Wealth, GTA, GlobalTech, GTA Australia, GT Australia, GT Alliance, TRP, TRP Solutions, Thorne Roberts Price and Thomson Rowe Partners."

Excellent that these sleazes have been caught. One has to wonder however how people are so gullible to cold callers who essentially say "Boy have we got a scheme for you to earn infinite profits". Then offer to sell them some gambling program for horses, stocks, options, currency fluctuations etc. If these programs they were selling were so good, why did then need to work at all and to sell it in the first place?

 

[whatmeworry]

Got a call from "Telstra" last Friday saying that because we had been illegally downloading programs, out internet would be terminated in 14 days unless...

He didn't get any further since we'd just got off a plane from LHR on the Thursday.

In hindsight, I should not have been so quick with my abuse since it may have been interesting to see hi justify the charges and accusations since our internet had been turned off for the last month...

The call I got from 'Telstra' the other day came from a Tassie number. I would say hello... put the phone down... Picked up the phone and would say hello again and the scammer would resume their scam spiel... Rinse and repeat till they hang up.

 

[marki]

Those type of numbers are easily purchasable from Skype for instance. Had no idea that one could not hang up on them. That's dangerous.... what if I needed the line for an emergency call?

 

[whatmeworry]

Those type of numbers are easily purchasable from Skype for instance. Had no idea that one could not hang up on them. That's dangerous.... what if I needed the line for an emergency call?

You can hang up, but I was stringing them along...

I think the use of the Tassie Number was to make them seem like the legit Tassie Telstra call centre. That is if still there.

 

[N860CR]

You can hang up, but I was stringing them along...

I think the use of the Tassie Number was to make them seem like the legit Tassie Telstra call centre. That is if still there.

Every time I string them along they end up threatening to "place a bomb under my house". Gives great grounds for a followup call to the terrorism hotline.