Scams like these

[Jacques Vert]

Not too many email scams recently but the phone scammers have gone into overdrive!

Some days I have received 3 calls about electricity discounts, 2 about the solar energy rebate, Microsoft insist that there is something wrong with my computer and the technical department of TELSTRA wants to fix all of it for me.

Someone even called from one of my banks wanting to do a survey! I politely told them what I thought of scammers and they agreed before giving me sufficient account details, etc. to prove they were the real deal!

Oh well; at least I didn't tell them what I really think

 

[OZDUCK]

As I posted a few days ago I seem to be getting a lot of scams e-mails following on from our Canada trip in 2016. Another two today - both the same wording but with different dollar amounts. I do like the "Caution" in the header.

TDCanada Trust

CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.




URGENT communication


Incoming payment blocked: CAD $1232.23


We have blocked an incoming payment of CAD $1232.76

We have reasons to believe this was an unauthorized payment.

Our system has automatically put a hold on your account and you need to verify your information to accept this payment.

 

[wandering_fred]

As much as I might be happy in collecting some "pay" I will forgo checking the contents of the attached "payslip"
Or is it I am just anti-UK?

Hello,
Please find attached most recent payslip.
Best Regards,
Debra Mitchel
"at" bright-pay"dot"co"dot"uk

Just wandering
Fred

 

[mrbraun]

the good ATO scams are still going strong. worse are the ones from o/s numbers that don't do anything except try to keep you on the phone as long as possible so they reverse charge

 

[SFSC]

the good ATO scams are still going strong. worse are the ones from o/s numbers that don't do anything except try to keep you on the phone as long as possible so they reverse charge

Haven't struck the reverse charge scam yet. How do they manage to enable the reverse charge?

 

[mrbraun]

both my partner and i received overseas calls from random locations for about a month or two. it’s a one ring call then hang up. if you see the missed call, get curious and ring back...that’s apparently how the charges occur

Don't call back: customers warned about scam involving missed phone calls from unknown numbers

they happened to call me from a u.s number after i’d returned from u.s business trip...so i almost called back. after that, the locations become more varied

 

[VPS]

I had the Chinese one yesterday - just a normal Australian mobile number calling my mobile. Just hung up straight away

 

[OATEK]

From: Gen. CFH

Bagram Airfield

Address: Bagram, Afghanistan

Code: BPM, OAI

Hello, this is Gen. Ham; It will interest you to know that I have named you as the beneficiary to receive my consignment (2 boxes) containing ($20 Million USD) which has just arrived the JFK Airport New York today from our USAF base here in Afghanistan.

My desire and purpose is to have the U.S Military Air & Surface Transportation Company in New York to deliver the funds to you (or) to any overseas address under your supervision as long as I’m assured that it will be safe in your care until I return home mid-next year.

The deal is 60/40 split (60% for me, and 40% for you); I am not a greedy person and I hope that you will not double cross a working brother who has sacrificed his whole life in serving this nation.

Please e-Mail me immediately with your delivery address and Phone numbers at

My private email address: gen.cfh@xx_.XX

May God continue to bless you! and I wait for your urgent reply;

Respectfully,

Gen. CFH

 

[wandering_fred]

Win a $1000 Virgin Flight_voucher!!

Dear [firstname],



Do you like tour?

Hope your answer is "YES!" because your email: [xx_xx_x] has been randomly selected and you have a possibility to become one of our lucky winners! In order to get your reward you need to fill in our short survey and confirm your details. Participation is free!

Alas Virgin is not one of my choices..... while wandering

Fred

 

[QF WP]

How lucky to be one of 100 chosen . Love how Steve talks about himself in third person

Attention;

NOTE: If you received this message in your SPAM/BULK folder, it is because of the restrictions imposed by your Mail/Internet Service Provider, we urge you to treat it genuinely.

How are you today? Hope all is well with you and family? You may not understand why this email came to you. In regards to the recent meeting between the United Nations, Cyber Crimes Commission (CCc), Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) and the United States Government to restore the dignity and Economy ofa Nations based on the Agreement with the World Bank Assistance Project to help and make the world a better place. We have been having meetings for the past 3 months with the Secretary General of the United Nations.

This email come to those who are yet to receive their compensation/inheritance/winnings and who have been scammed in any part of the world, this includes every foreign contractors that may have not received their contract sum, and people that have had an unfinished transaction or Compensation payments that failed due to Government problems etc. Recently we the Federal Bureau of Investigation(FBI) arrested internet fraudsters and Scammer with large amount of money so if you are receiving this email its means you where select to be compensated as a scam victim among 100 selected victims with part of the money recover from the internet fraudsters account, . The UNITED NATIONS have agreed to compensate you with the sum of $9,000.000.00 USD (NINE MILLION DOLLARS).

100 people where selected across the Globe for this MIDDLE OF THE YEAR COMPENSATION and Your email was in the list submitted by our Monitoring Team observers and this is why we are contacting you, this have been agreed upon and have been signed, so you are advised to contact Mr. Steve Cox of the United Nations Compensation Commission, as he is our representative in United State Of America. Contact him immediately for your Compensation payment of $9,000.000.00 USD (NINE MILLION DOLLARS) which will be released directly to you in accordance with legal clearance and procedures.

It is my pleasure to inform you that your ATM Card Number; 4000128498979908 have been approved in your favor. Your Personal Identification Number is 6062. The ATM Card Value is $9,000.000.00 USD (NINE MILLION DOLLARS) You are advised that a most withdrawal value of $15,000.00 USD is permitted on withdrawal per Day and we are duly Inter Switch and you can make withdrawal in any Inter Switch site and ATM Center of your choice.

However, you should send him your

Full Name/

Telephone Number/

your Residential Address/

Gender:

Occupation:

New email address for this safety of this transaction Contact Mr. Steve Cox immediately for your compensation payment:

Mr. Steve Cox
Director- General,
ATM Card Payment
Washington Field Office
Email: [email protected]
Telephone number : +1(253)271-4136

He is obliged to give you a call and treat your case with utmost urgency as soon as you contact him and fill out your correct details including all reachable phone numbers for him to get in touch with you via phone and email.

NOTE: Under normal circumstances the collection of your ATM CARD the IMF and the Finance Ministry insisted that you pay for the DELIVERY FEE ONLY of your ATM CARD via western union money transfer, which will cost you just $220 USD only, the western union or Money Gram payment receipt of $220 USD to the nominated courier company that will carry out with the delivery to your door step to be documented in your file as proof your collection. Ask Mr. Steve Cox for the instruction on how to send the delivery fee of $220 to him, Please note that the delivery fee can not be deducted from your ATM CARD due to the fact that no one has the authority to unlucky and use your ATM CARD on your behalf because you alone will be the one to first use the card for the first withdrawal with your secret code.

We also advise that you stop further communications with these imposters and forward any correspondence / proposal you receive from them to Mr. Steve Cox in other for the FBI to bring justice to them.

Good luck and kind regards,

Making the world a better place!

GOD BLESS USA.

REGARDS.

Mr.Steve Cox

 

[prozac]

It finally happened. Last night 8 fake emails (with attachment) were sent out from my webmail account. Luckily I discovered it at 7am this morning as one was sent to one of my other accounts. A quick check through my email client revealed nothing, so then I logged into my ISP webmail and discovered one account with the fake emails in the "Sent" folder. A call to my ISP and all security settings have been changed so it won't happen again. Next I contacted all seven other recipients to warn them. Threat contained.

Strangely, it did not involve my address book, just 8 recent email senders.

I have a pretty good idea of how the security breach occurred (via a trusted contact who had been compromised), so I pass this on the alert how easily this can happen. If it does, get straight onto your ISP.

 

[Boca68]

From: Gen. CFH


The deal is 60/40 split (60% for me, and 40% for you); I am not a greedy person and I hope that you will not double cross a working brother who has sacrificed his whole life in serving this nation.

Please e-Mail me immediately with your delivery address and Phone numbers at

My private email address: gen.cfh@xx_.XX

May God continue to bless you! and I wait for your urgent reply;

Respectfully,

Gen. CFH

Sorry General, it ain't my nation.

You are just about to be ripped off!
Aaww heck! Spam, spam, spam....

 

[juddles]

Hi all,

I do not frequent this thread, but wish to post something that you guys may have opinions on.....

I am mainly overseas, but return to Australia every month or two. I am not someone who keeps their mobile on all the time.

Over the past week I received about 40 calls from a "private number". I do not get many calls, and tend to not answer unknown callers. But for each of those 40 calls there was a "message" in my Telstra message bank, which I had to trawl through - each was just a few seconds of silence. It was tedious. Eventually I had my phone when yet another call came through, and the caller said he was from Commonwealth. He literally said "Is that (juddles)?, I am from the Commonwealth Bank and wish to talk to you about a personal banking matter. But first, I need you to provide your personal security information...."

I said it was unusual that the CBA would call clients from a hidden number and immediately demand ME to provide all my security stuff. He "assured me" that he was from CBA. Great. I asked him what the call was about but he said he could not tell me. I asked if at least he could confirm that the call was not to offer me some service, as am not interested. He said that due to "privacy" all he could say is that it was about a "personal banking matter". When I refused to give him my security details he gave me a number to call so I could be sure it was the CBA. I repeated that I did not want to lose my time, so could he give me some inkling what it was about, but he continued with the line that it was "a personal banking matter".

I persisted. I asked him what would happen if I did not bother to call. His words were "you risk further calls". WTF??!! I asked him again to confirm this was not an offer of some service, but he held the line that he could tell me nothing unless I provided my security details.

I eventually called the number provided, and to cut a long story short, it was because I had forgotten to pay $200 on a credit card with them I almost never use. Small stuff, fixed immediately.

But when I made that call I asked them why on earth they cold-call customers from hidden phone nubers and demand security info. They said that is their procedure!! I said that is training clients to give out all their security info to anyone that calls them from a hidden number. I asked why I was not contacted by email or via the Netbank messaging system. They said that email was "insecure". So I asked them why not send a message through Netbank as they do for everything else. The reply was simply that phoning was their procedure.

Maybe I am way off line here, but I feel this is appalling in this age of scams. Commonwealth has, it appears, the practice to call from hidden numbers and demand the client states all their security stuff??

 

[prozac]

Juddles, my wife received a call some years ago from our bank regarding some matter. Same as you they demanded she tell them personal details before they proceed. She refused. After she told me I called my business banker and got up him. How dare they behave like this! If there is a problem they can write to you or have a banker whom you know call to discuss. Get up 'em mate.

 

[QF WP]

I've had the same issue from Macquarie Bank @juddles - as I only have a CC with them it was a little more obvious, but it was a "chicken and the egg" discussion with the CSA (not from a Call Centre not i Australia either) - how do I know you are from Macquarie just the same as how do you know you are actually talking to QF WP? We hit the same stalemate as you. I was online looking at my account and saw the same issue - I had missed the minimum paymnent that was due the day before. I told them I had gone online a sorted out the problem myself, no thanks to them. The CSA was put out that they hadn't been able to help, I suppose because they couldn't mark it down as a successful outcome due to their input.

Now I have gone fully electronic and they send me SMS reminders as well as automatic messages every time I spend on the card. No more CC juggling.

Anything to limit the ability of spammers to contact me.

 

[QF WP]

Good morning,

I left a message with your office Friday. I would like to discuss a new project that we are working on and how your firm can potentially support that project. This project is time sensitive.

Please feel free to go through these Proposals and indicate early interest.

PDF won't send on my officer computer.

I uploaded it to our SharePoint Here : Props #3321<redacted>

Best Regards,


Sunil Rao
<address redacted>

Sunil mate, you didn't leave me a message with my office on Friday - I was sitting her all days and the phone didn't ring. Sorry, you're technologically proficient to use SharePoint but you don't have Adobe?? Come now, how stupid to you think I am?

 

[OZDUCK]

I have apparently booked flights on QR from Doha to Manila on PayPal! Two emails came very close together

Very little information on the message - just a "receipt" to click on and the wording below. It was not addressed to me, just with a "Paypal" address.

Thanks for your booking flight on Flyfar, Please check your receipt on
attachment.

Actually,Flyfar the website I supposedly booked these flights on has an amazingly poor rating on Product Review with multiple "bait and switch" complaints, cancellations etc.

 

[QF WP]

Looks like I am to join the Illuminati:

This is the Great Illuminati World currently recruiting members all over the World. Do you want to join the great Illuminati world wide? to become rich and famous,Protection,power, To fight oppression and promotion in your work place? we are currently looking for new applicants to be initiated who understand very well the vision of the great Illuminati,here is your chance, we offer $900,000.00 USD to all new members after the initiation. Apply now if you are interested

Email from a .pe address (Peru - that's a new one for me)

Then another from the FBI. Well I'd better sit up an take notice...

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Attention Beneficiary,

Records show that you are among one of the individuals and organizations who are yet to receive their overdue payment from overseas which includes those of Lottery/Gambling, Contract and Inheritance. Through our Fraud Monitory Unit we have noticed that you have been transacting with some impostors and fraudsters who have been impersonating the likes of Prof. Soludo /Mr. Lamido Sanusi of the Central Bank Of Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Aziza, Bode Williams, Frank, Anderson, none officials of Oceanic Bank, Zenith Banks, Kelvin Young of HSBC, Ben of FedEx, Ibrahim Sule, Dr. Usman Shamsuddeen and some impostors claiming to be The Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The Cyber Crime Division of the FBI gathered information from the Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) on how some people have lost outrageous sums of money to these impostors. As a result of this, we hereby advise you to stop communication with any one not referred to you by us. We have negotiated with the Federal Ministry of Finance that your payment totaling $5,900,000.00(Five Million Nine Hundred Thousand Dollars). will be released to you via a custom pin based ATM card with a maximum withdrawal limit of $15,000 a day which is powered by Visa Card and can be used anywhere in the world where you see a Visa Card Logo on the Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) We guarantee receipt of your payment. This is as a result of the mandate from US Government to make sure all debts owned to citizens of American and also Asia and Europe which includes Inheritance, Contract, Gambling/Lottery etc are been cleared.

To redeem your funds, you are hereby advised to contact the ATM Card Center via email for their requirement to proceed and procure your Approval of Payment Warrant and Endorsement of your ATM Release Order on your behalf which will cost you $345 Usd only and nothing more as everything else has been taken care of by the Federal Government including taxes, custom paper and clearance duty so all you will ever need to pay is $345.00 only.

Mr.Samson Lucas(ATM Card Center Director) WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535 ATM Card Center Director Email:<redacted - but of course it's a gmail>

Do contact of the ATM Card Center via his contact details above and furnish him with your details as listed below:

FULL NAMES: __________________________________

DELIVERY ADDRESS FOR ATM CARD: __________________ DATE OF BIRTH: __________________

OCCUPATION: __________________

TELEPHONE NUMBER: _____________________

EMAIL ADDRESS: _____________________

On contacting him with your details your file would be updated and he will be sending you the payment information in which you will use in making payment of $345.00 via Money Gram or Western Union Money Transfer for the procurement of your Approval of Payment Warrant and Endorsement of your ATM Release Order, after which the delivery of your ATM card will be effected to your designated home address without any further delay, extra fee.

Christopher A. Wray, DIRECTOR

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535

Note: Disregard any email you get from any impostors or offices claiming to be in posses of the ATM card center who is the rightful person to deal with in regards to your payment and forward any emails you get from impostors to this office so we could act upon it immediately.Help stop cyber crime.

That's a bit rich coming from you (all the way from Angola - another first time scam country for me).

 

[OZDUCK]

Looks like I am to join the Illuminati:
.

So the Illuminata are real! That does explain some of our current leaders.

 

[drron]

"Dearest One, My name is Mrs. Dorathy Gaby, I am the regional Bank Manager of Banquet Atlantic Abidjan-Cote D' Ivoire. i have something important i want you to handle, Get back for more Details. Dorathy Gaby."

Sorry Dorathy I have more important things this week.Celeste is going to give me an angelic reading.Cant wait.