Scams like these

Port Power said:
The couple all over the commercial TV chanels tonight who lost $100,000 to scammers. How many times have we been told NEVER to respond to the link provided? Following on, how could the couple still want their bank to compensate them because they let the subsequent caller open a new bank account for them by text?!?
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A fool and his money….
 
AustraliaPoochie said:
If you want to string them along, do what the Youtube anti scammers do, waste their time, and play along with a vm.
Use your own voice, and log down (ie, write out their spiel), ie what their (scammers) aim is.
The fake NBN scam
The fake bank account will be locked scam.
The fake AFP scam.
The fake ATO scam.
The fake LinkT scam.
The fake friend I have been robbed scam.
The silent call scam.
The fake tech support scam.
The fake will scam.
That is 8, nak, 9 I can think of.
You can always just put the phone down, after the speil has been read by them, and after all, we here in Aust do not pay to answer calls, of course, don't be "stupid" to call the wangiri walla back.
Edit: if you know a second language, apart from English, you can try that.
Use "hi hao" or namaste/namaskar ji, or vannakam, or apa khabar, or do some of the basic greeting the Arab languages use.
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Excellent advice
Also remember to sign off with a loud blow of the ear piercing whistle (my father used this trick when I asked him why he had one next to the phone)
 
prozac said:
Gotta tell ya they don't like it when you start asking what they are wearing ... like any underwear, go on you can tell me. ;)
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On one of the scam calls from India pretending they are my internet provider, I asked the woman if her parents were proud of her being a lying thief, she hung up quickly for some reason and didn't want to talk to me.
 
My latest email ( full of bad spelling, punctuation and grammar):

HELLO.....

i'm Mr. Michael Owen Head of Inspection Unit United Nations Inspection Agency in Harts field-Jackson International Airport Atlanta, Georgia.

During our investigation, We discovered an abandoned shipment from a Diplomatic agent from International monetary fund which was transferred from JF Kennedy Airport to our facility here in Atlanta, and when scanned it revealed an undisclosed sum of money in two Metal Trunk Boxes weighing approximately 115kg each.

By assessment, each of the boxes contains $10.5M They are still left in the airport storage facility till today. The Consignments like I said are two metal trunk boxes weighing about 115kg each (Internal dimension: W61 x H156 x D73 (cm) effective

Capacity: 680 L) Approximately. The details of the consignment including your name and email on the official document from International monetary fund where the shipment was tagged as personal effects/classified document is still available with us. As it stands Now, you have to reconfirm your Full name, Phone Number, Full address so I can cross-check and see if it corresponds with the one on the official documents. It is now left for you to decide if you still need the consignment or allow us to repatriate it back to the IMF as we are instructed.

i'm looking forward to hear from you soon

BEST REGARDS
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Port Power said:
The couple all over the commercial TV chanels tonight who lost $100,000 to scammers. How many times have we been told NEVER to respond to the link provided? Following on, how could the couple still want their bank to compensate them because they let the subsequent caller open a new bank account for them by text?!?
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"...NEVER to respond to the link provided"
But people are being conditioned by legitimate businesses to do just that... track your parcel Here, confirm login Here.
 
Brissy1 said:
"...NEVER to respond to the link provided"
But people are being conditioned by legitimate businesses to do just that... track your parcel Here, confirm login Here.
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Tracking your parcel is completely different to using the attached link to log into your bank account. Banks always advise to go to their website and log in from there. Conditioning or not, this is very basic safety.
 
p--and--t said:
On one of the scam calls from India pretending they are my internet provider, I asked the woman if her parents were proud of her being a lying thief, she hung up quickly for some reason and didn't want to talk to me.
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It’s a “haggling culture”, scamming someone is just “beating them at business”, it’s considered “winning”. Same thing as charging customers 100x what something is worth just because the customer doesn’t know what it’s worth. They didn’t feel bad about it, they wanted to get onto the next mark ASAP.
 
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MARTINE said:
Excellent advice
Also remember to sign off with a loud blow of the ear piercing whistle (my father used this trick when I asked him why he had one next to the phone)
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No, no, no, no whistle.
Your aim, my esteemed colleague, is to play along, not to antagonize them.
You need to know their script, a voice to word processor adapter would be a good idea, if you want to learn their spiel/monologue.
Sane people know that when we get a call, and we know we have not bought any lotteries, but are told we have won, that its a scam.
Or if you are told you have an "outstanding" LinkT toll, but you (or I in this case), have never held a driving licence, (dogs can't legally drive), so you and I know its a scam.
But for LinkT they want you to do the respond to their link website, via a smartphone and provide bank account details, or card details.
One thing, is that if you really want to rile them, is to buy a $25 visa prepaid card from Coles, when you get a scam call, you can pay that via the prepaid card, they can take all the money they want, but your outlay is only $25.
You as owner of the card, then can see where the money has gone.
They would of course have your phone number, but its very unlikely they would have a name, so you could give any name you want.
Not sure if they can port a phone number if you don't give them your name, there is a risk there.
Of course, we are told not to tag along, or play along, officially from the anti scam agencies.
 
AustraliaPoochie said:
No, no, no, no whistle.
Your aim, my esteemed colleague, is to play along, not to antagonize them.
You need to know their script, a voice to word processor adapter would be a good idea, if you want to learn their spiel/monologue.
Sane people know that when we get a call, and we know we have not bought any lotteries, but are told we have won, that its a scam.
Or if you are told you have an "outstanding" LinkT toll, but you (or I in this case), have never held a driving licence, (dogs can't legally drive), so you and I know its a scam.
But for LinkT they want you to do the respond to their link website, via a smartphone and provide bank account details, or card details.
One thing, is that if you really want to rile them, is to buy a $25 visa prepaid card from Coles, when you get a scam call, you can pay that via the prepaid card, they can take all the money they want, but your outlay is only $25.
You as owner of the card, then can see where the money has gone.
They would of course have your phone number, but its very unlikely they would have a name, so you could give any name you want.
Not sure if they can port a phone number if you don't give them your name, there is a risk there.
Of course, we are told not to tag along, or play along, officially from the anti scam agencies.
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Why would I even give them $25??
 
That is what some of those Youtube anti scammers do.
Though, personally these days, on the home phone, I just let it ring.
On the mobile, if its unknown caller or private number or a number I don't recognise, I let it ring I just press the on button on side, it silences the call, and then I add the number to block and then delete.
Not sure how to do a block on an apple phone, but mine are not apple, so block and delete is easy... granted scammers would be able to use many many phone numbers.
Since I have blocked and deleted, since starting smartphone ownership about 3 to 4 years ago, my mobile is now quieter.
Home phone still rings many times a day, but I ignore them.
Not old enough for Centrelink/(aka ServiceAustralia), the ATO always sends me a note via email to go to my.gov.au anyway, can always hover over sender to see if the email is bonafide or not.
So far have not had my smartphone screen show up AFP/ATO yet.
 
Looks like someone from Melbourne has been caught scamming using the "Hi Mum" SMS scam we have seen mentioned a lot in this thread.

www.abc.net.au

Melbourne man charged with using 'Hi Mum' SMS scam to obtain 'substantial' sum of money

Police charge a man from Melbourne's north-east with using the scam, in which a message is sent claiming to be from a child who lost their phone, to trick people into handing over a "substantial amount of money".
www.abc.net.au www.abc.net.au
 

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