Scams like these

[OATEK]

Careful, those features do not look like she is from Ukraine. I think she is tricking you.

What i don't get about these scammers is the total lack of attention to detail. Receiving the same basic scam over 40 times (they come with 3 variations of photo) is hardly likely to seem genuine.

 

[Forg]

Careful, those features do not look like she is from Ukraine. I think she is tricking you.

To ensure not to be rude, you’d need to check what pronouns they prefer too.

 

[MARTINE]

What i don't get about these scammers is the total lack of attention to detail. Receiving the same basic scam over 40 times (they come with 3 variations of photo) is hardly likely to seem genuine.

Maybe its Black Friday discount for multiple purchases.

Re pronouns - not sure how much longer we can say Black Friday

 

[prozac]

Maybe its Black Friday discount for multiple purchases.

Re pronouns - not sure how much longer we can say Black Friday

Or White Christmas?

 

[JohnK]

What i don't get about these scammers is the total lack of attention to detail. Receiving the same basic scam over 40 times (they come with 3 variations of photo) is hardly likely to seem genuine.

I don't think scammers are very clever they're just lucky many are gullible.

Plus I recall someone saying they make mistakes on purpose.

 

[RAM]

What i don't get about these scammers is the total lack of attention to detail. Receiving the same basic scam over 40 times (they come with 3 variations of photo) is hardly likely to seem genuine.

I wondered about that also some years back but one knowledgeable person suggested that multiple emails on the same day was often driven by how many different lists of email addresses the scammer had purchased. Given how many groups onsell your email address (companies, many charities etc) then you may well appear in multiple lists. In the early 2000s magazine subscriptions were the worst for onselling details as I discovered with one well known overseas financial magazine that had mispelled my surname (badly but still got the CC charge to work). I got lots of junk mail with that particular mistake that had never been made before.

Perhaps the more sophisticated scammers do a data matching exercise to improve their success rate?

If you want to have some fun and you have a gmail email address then you can simply add +1 or +2 etc right before the @ so say you use +1 for charities, +2 for Australian based companies, +3 for overseas companies, +4 for internet shopping orders etc.

Then over the ensuing months see if the multiple emails are coming across the different +'s.

 

[MARTINE]

How about this? The worry is my full nane was on the notification!!!

 

[MARTINE]

The email was from [email protected]
Which came up as Christine Kohler

 

[SYD]

The email was from [email protected]
Which came up as Christine Kohler

But are you out of pocket 2m€?

 

[OZDUCK]

I just got an SMS from the Latitude (28 Degrees) fraud area querying a transaction on the card that I mainly use overseas or via PayPal. This transaction was a fraudulent one. So I had a quick look at my account and found 6 pending payments that were not authorised by me. Latitude have now cancelled that card are sending me a new one and are investigating the charges. All up they came to a bit over $2,000. As far as I can make out all were with Australian companies.

 

[marki]

To ensure not to be rude, you’d need to check what pronouns they prefer too.

Mx Scam to you

 

[MARTINE]

But are you out of pocket 2m€?

No
Presumably getting back ‘my money’ will involve increasingly larger data sharing
What freaked me was my full name in the email!

 

[MARTINE]

I just got an SMS from the Latitude (28 Degrees) fraud area querying a transaction on the card that I mainly use overseas or via PayPal. This transaction was a fraudulent one. So I had a quick look at my account and found 6 pending payments that were not authorised by me. Latitude have now cancelled that card are sending me a new one and are investigating the charges. All up they came to a bit over $2,000. As far as I can make out all were with Australian companies.

Its a PITA - if the card is linked to your bills it takes so much time to change everything and (in mycase) occured on the day the money was meant to be paid and they all bounced!!

 

[JohnK]

I just got an SMS from the Latitude (28 Degrees) fraud area querying a transaction on the card that I mainly use overseas or via PayPal. This transaction was a fraudulent one. So I had a quick look at my account and found 6 pending payments that were not authorised by me. Latitude have now cancelled that card are sending me a new one and are investigating the charges. All up they came to a bit over $2,000. As far as I can make out all were with Australian companies.

I didn't get an SMS but had 3 fraudulent transactions just over $100 in total. I suspect it could have been higher but they hit the credit limit.

Took a while to get them reversed and the email they sent they mentioned that if the vendor disputed the transactions they would reinstate the transactions.

Yeah right.

 

[Hvr]

 

[OZDUCK]

Its a PITA - if the card is linked to your bills it takes so much time to change everything and (in mycase) occured on the day the money was meant to be paid and they all bounced!!

Perfectly correct - I have just had my first 'bounce back' on a monthly subscription. Luckily there are only a couple hooked to this card and they are low value ones. But I do now have the hassle of updating them when my new card arrives.

 

[Ade]

A scam a day. Suspicious that a supposedly AU based recruitment agency is whatsApping from a Malaysian phone number ...

 

[oz_mark]

I don't think scammers are very clever they're just lucky many are gullible.

Plus I recall someone saying they make mistakes on purpose.

It is on purpose, to allow the gullible to self-select themselves.
It costs very little to send a million emails. It's when people reply you have work to do. So, best to make sure you are working on those most likely to go through with it.

 

[prozac]

How completely, utterly, moronic, stupid can OPTUS be?!*%!!!!!
I received the following text on my phone today.

Hi Prozac, Optus here. We'd love to hear about your Optus experience, so we can keep improving our services. Tell us about your experience and you could win a $2000 VISA gift card. Simply complete this survey: optus.com.au/OCS?ehybdm3y6z5zdd6b643nht Eligible customers only. Ends 25/3/23. T&Cs apply: http://www.optus.com.au/competition-terms. Standard charges apply.

Oh, and they are clever. I wanted to follow this up with a sternly worded email, however even after logging in there is no way to email anyone to tell them how plainly stupid they are. It is about time they sacked some of their board members. Did anyone hear the whinny weak interview given by one of their directors after the data leak fiasco?

 

[ayebee]

Continue to get the scam calls etc. Don't know which hack was responsible but never mind.

Haven't searched the thread for relevant posts, but sometime back I stumbled on this youtuber ... https://www.youtube.com/@ScammerPayback
Quite entertaining how he reverse hacks the scammers and can destroy their computers etc.

Have you found others doing similar ?