Scams like these

[Jurahn]

^^ Wow, that's a beauty LOL.

 

[OZDUCK]

Thanks a lot - all of this talk about the Telstra phone scam encouraged them to ring us today. My wife, very politely, told them that she knew it was a scam. She is far to nice to these people.

 

[cove]

I really miss those Nigerian scammers. I wonder what they are doing now.

 

[love_the_life]

Well tonight's junk mail included:
1. 2 job offers
2. A new car
3. 2 new iPhones
4. An offer to become an Etherium invester and make 8K
5.An apology from Woolworths that I have been overcharged and so they are giving me a $2000 gift card
6. An offer I can't refuse from an online casino.

Surprisingly I didn't reply to any of them. I wonder why not

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

My parents got a $1000 "supposedly" from Coles sms.
They (the spammers)/scammers even put the words (Coles in upper case) as the sender.
I can now see why older people fall for scams when they get the Bunnings, Coles, Woolworths fake survey, and fill in their details, and then get spam/scam emails for the rest of their lives.
I told my dad that its a scam, he says no harm in seeing how far it would go, I keep mentioning not to, bugga, sometimes these older folk think they know it all.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

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I had thought that with the new AGL logo, someone somewhere at AGL would have made it harder to cut and paste and put "Dear Customer" as receipient of bill.

 

[get me outta here]

I’m getting unconvincing offers for bitcoin lately, must be to attract the ‘me too investor’.

 

[JohnK]

I’m getting unconvincing offers for bitcoin lately, must be to attract the ‘me too investor’.

I'm getting 10-12 emails/day and sick of them even in the junk folder. I have to check junk folder regularly as wanted email finds its way in there and I don't want to wade through this garbage. Surely they can ban the websites that sends this garbage?

I used to get up to 10-12 junk emails/day. The past month that has doubled and sometimes more.

 

[love_the_life]

I'm getting 10-12 emails/day and sick of them even in the junk folder. I have to check junk folder regularly as wanted email finds its way in there and I don't want to wade through this garbage. Surely they can ban the websites that sends this garbage?

I used to get up to 10-12 junk emails/day. The past month that has doubled and sometimes more.

I have set preferences to send emails from a number of senders straight to trash. Instead of specifying the whole sender I get rid of the name and only leave domain etc (from the @.....). Although I need to add to the list every week, it does divert quite a few from the inbox as many are the same address. The ones in my junk folder are a new set of addresses so have set them to delete as well.
Makes it a little easier but not perfect.
Have done the same with phone numbers if they are spammers/scammers/cold callers - straight to answering machine.

 

[OzEire]

I have set preferences to send emails from a number of senders straight to trash. Instead of specifying the whole sender I get rid of the name and only leave domain etc (from the @.....). Although I need to add to the list every week, it does divert quite a few from the inbox as many are the same address.

Some mail client programs will "learn" what you don't want if you mark these messages as "junk". Mine does with a single click. I divert junk to a folder for a final review (sender & subject only) and can delete all of them with a single "empty trash" command. Very efficient.

Using a "white list" of known or trusted domains does the opposite, ensuring you don't miss important things (like new DSC offers). My contact list is a white list for junk detection and I have added to my contact list some "contact details" for companies I want to receive mail from.

 

[wandering_fred]

My luck must be changing.

Someone (apparently in Ukraine) is offering somebody (the recipient doesn't match here) FREE lottery tickets.

Alas the Telstra mail server won't let me report it.

Just wandering

Fred

 

[OZDUCK]

Unauthorised Sign-In attempted at both my Commonwealth & NAB accounts. Luckily Support Centre stopped them. Good old Support Centre just needs a few details.

If only I had either a Commonwealth or NAB account.

 

[JohnK]

I have set preferences to send emails from a number of senders straight to trash. Instead of specifying the whole sender I get rid of the name and only leave domain etc (from the @.....). Although I need to add to the list every week, it does divert quite a few from the inbox as many are the same address. The ones in my junk folder are a new set of addresses so have set them to delete as well.
Makes it a little easier but not perfect.

That does make it easier but not sure the free version of Outlook handles the situation you describe. A lot of the junk email comes from the same domain. Must do some more research.

 

[OzEire]

Unauthorised Sign-In attempted at both my Commonwealth & NAB accounts. Luckily Support Centre stopped them. Good old Support Centre just needs a few details.

I had this recently, except it was a bank where I do have an account. After some further checking it turned out to be genuine.

I was dismayed at the initial contact from the fraud department calling from an unknown number, asking for personal information without giving me anything to prove who they were. I politely told them to rack off, called the official number but the call centre frontline CSA had no notes on file. Ah ha! I thought. But having mentioned the fraud team he said I would need to speak directly with them... could they call me back? I asked for the name of the person who would call? No, not possible. Can you give me a ref number which they can state when they call so I know its genuine? No I just log a request to call back. How will I know it's a genuine call? They will say they are calling from the bank (tone: obviously!). Hmmm.

After quite a while we conferenced in the fraud team member who then refused to discuss the matter with the CSA on the line, but he couldn't hang up or it would terminate the conference call!! But at least I had a name and voice which I could recognize a few minutes later when she called.

What a saga!

 

[VPS]

FACEBOOK ONLINELOTTERY PROGAM 2017
From:The Desk of The President
International Promotions/Prize Award
Lucky Number:23456895718
Ticket Number:5647600564789
Batch Number:255123/8872/244
Serial Number:463743451907
Category:2nd



Congratulations From Facebook:




We are pleased to inform you of the result that just concluded annual final draws held on the (Sept 20th 2017) by the Facebook Group in cash promotion to encourage the usage of Facebook World Wide,And your name was among the 20 lucky winners who won $3,000,000.00 USD (Three Million United State DollarsOnly) each on the Facebook Group Promotion Award attached to Lucky Number (23456895718),Ticket Number (4647600564789),Batch Number (255123/8872/244) & Serial Number (4637434551907).

The Online Draws was conducted by a random selection of email you were picked by an advance authomated random computer search from the Facebook in other to claim your winnings prize $3,000,000.00 USD,The Lottery program which is a new innovation by Facebook,is aimed at saying a big thank you to all our users from making Facebook their number one means to connect ,communicate,relate and hook up with their families and friends over the years.


And this is part of our security protocol to avoid double claiming and unwarranted abuse of this program by some participants and scam artists all participants were selected through a computer ballots system drawn from over 20,000 companies ' and 30,000,000.00 individuals ' emails addresses and names from all over the world.


This promotional program takes place every three years.You have to be rest assured that this is real and 100% legitimate... and there are some scam artists around.....Thanks to the FBI...216 of them have been arrested....The Software Corporation to encourage some few individuals with web site and email addresses promoted this lottery.


In other to claim your winning prize you are to Reconfirmed your profile details in which the Facebook Board will make use to get your Winning Certificate and all Necessary document available for you before they can release your winning Funds to you today.


Name:
Full Home address:
Country:
Age:
Occupation:
Mobile Number:
Email Address:
A pics of your driver's license


We need all the information because a lot of people lied to us and claim to be the real person that is the reason we ask for your information for security purpose so you need to be honest with us now.


As soon as you forward your details info to Facebook Lottery Payment Desk via ([email protected]) your winnings will be deliver to your home address today.


Note: All winnings must be claimed by all winners and After this, all unclaimed funds will be included in the next stake. To avoid unnecessary delays and complications please reh 2017 member to quote your reference and batch numbers in all correspondences. Furthermore, if there is any change in email address please contact us on.

As soon as he gets your email with all the information stated above he will tell you on what next to do as regards the claiming and receiving of your winnings of US$3,000,000.00.


Thank you and More Congratulations.


Agent Name:Mercy Jones for CDAA
Get some Zero paid Gear FBI SCAM PROTECTED

Note: For security reasons and due to the mix-up of some numbers and names, we ask that you keep this notification strictly from public notice.



Best regards
Facebook management

But you've made it public now and you'll never get your money

 

[UP4014]

I had this recently, except it was a bank where I do have an account. After some further checking it turned out to be genuine.

I was dismayed at the initial contact from the fraud department calling from an unknown number, asking for personal information without giving me anything to prove who they were. I politely told them to rack off, called the official number but the call centre frontline CSA had no notes on file. Ah ha! I thought. But having mentioned the fraud team he said I would need to speak directly with them... could they call me back? I asked for the name of the person who would call? No, not possible. Can you give me a ref number which they can state when they call so I know its genuine? No I just log a request to call back. How will I know it's a genuine call? They will say they are calling from the bank (tone: obviously!). Hmmm.

After quite a while we conferenced in the fraud team member who then refused to discuss the matter with the CSA on the line, but he couldn't hang up or it would terminate the conference call!! But at least I had a name and voice which I could recognize a few minutes later when she called.

What a saga!

Bank fraud team full of their own self importance. I've had similar,

 

[QF WP]

All I'm getting is German spam and lots of it. I have no idea what sort of scams they are as I don't read German.

Send some to me as I need to practice my German...

 

[QF WP]

Looks like there are many scams and even the most famous get them: The two million dollar heist

 

[QF WP]

A new one for me:

Attention please,

I just received an email from Mr. Larry Genesis the Director Of NEW IDEAS COURIER SERVICE that the ATM CARD valued the sum of ($2.5 Million Dollars) which I sent to you was returned back due to wrong address provided, They need the reconfirmation of the following information's:

Your Full Name:
Your Address:
Your Phone Number:
Your Age and occupation:

Contact them with the following information immediately:

Mr. Larry Genesis
Telephone: <deleted>
E-mail: <deleted>

They will require you to pay for International Delivery Permit Certificate fee, please do not hesitate to pay it immediately so they will recommence the shipment and also forward you your tracking information to you. Just send me a brief email as soon as you received the shipment.

Your registration code is (NICL/14160/2017), use it as your subject when contacting them so they will recognize you and attend to you without any delay.

Thanks and have a nice day.

Best Regards


Mr. Ban Ki-moon
United Nations Secretary general

Wow, I must be important. But why is it from a gmail account? Lucky I'm confused and deleted it

 

[wandering_fred]

Busy day for the scammers.

A "Telstra" bill (from Hong Kong) that took a second look and a check of the incoming email address....

A supply order for MYOB wanting an electronic sugnature.

Be careful in your wandering
Fred