Scams like these

[Ade]

Looks legit…

The URL looks dodgy … mymedi-inbox …

 

[DejaBrew]

The URL looks dodgy … mymedi-inbox …

Sorry, my sarcasm clearly didn’t translate

 

[gaz0303]

How do Instagram and other platforms get away with supporting scammers? Found an ad for Macpac with ridiculous discounts. Link was a very close impersonation of the real website but the web address gave it away. Surely Meta must be responsible for some due diligence in who they take money from?

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

They probably don't really care, as in the end, maybe the scammers are paying some small amount to keep the Insta/and other platforms "stuff" alive.
We are 28 days into Jul, the supposed start date of the Aust Anti Scam agency that is supposed to be a part of ACCC.
The/these scammers are getting more brazen.
Imagine being able to cut and paste the "Coat of Arms of Australia", ie, they are parading their scam as a part of Australia.
In rea life, if someone says they are a police officer but are not, they can be charged, but these scammers, saying they are ATO/AFP/Medicare... they have no scruples, and by the looks of it, no fear either.
There must be a way to distinguish real and made up Aust mobile phone numbers, and pseudo using fake/false ones, "should be harder".
From 0400 000 001 to 0499 999 999, ...
Sorry for the diatribe.
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For the past few years, we have always needed id to have a mobile phone number start up, either passport, driving licence, proof of age card, etc.

 

[OATEK]

How do Instagram and other platforms get away with supporting scammers? Found an ad for Macpac with ridiculous discounts. Link was a very close impersonation of the real website but the web address gave it away. Surely Meta must be responsible for some due diligence in who they take money from?

Caveat emptor perhaps? Easy cop-out for many social media and aggregator sites.

 

[Forg]

As a business I suspect you could easily spend more money than you were making, trying to successfully vet all your advertisers for scamminisation …

 

[Buzzard]

They probably don't really care, as in the end, maybe the scammers are paying some small amount to keep the Insta/and other platforms "stuff" alive.
We are 28 days into Jul, the supposed start date of the Aust Anti Scam agency that is supposed to be a part of ACCC.
The/these scammers are getting more brazen.
Imagine being able to cut and paste the "Coat of Arms of Australia", ie, they are parading their scam as a part of Australia.
In rea life, if someone says they are a police officer but are not, they can be charged, but these scammers, saying they are ATO/AFP/Medicare... they have no scruples, and by the looks of it, no fear either.
There must be a way to distinguish real and made up Aust mobile phone numbers, and pseudo using fake/false ones, "should be harder".
From 0400 000 001 to 0499 999 999, ...
Sorry for the diatribe.
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For the past few years, we have always needed id to have a mobile phone number start up, either passport, driving licence, proof of age card, etc.

ID for a new mobile phone number is a joke. Just the other day I helped an international student who only arrived in Australia that morning, connect a new service.
All done online, yes he used his correct name, DOB and foreign passport number but for his address used that of the hotel he was staying at as student accommodation was not available until the following day.
within minutes his service was up and running, I rang him to show that his phone was active.
But the point is he could have probably entered any name and a fake passport number and and it would have worked.

 

[Flyfrequently]

ID for a new mobile phone number is a joke.

But the point is he could have probably entered any name and a fake passport number and and it would have worked.

Seems not much has changed in 24 years @Buzzard .
Then 18, Ms Flyfrequently in 1999 was able to get a phone and plan with an expired passport and a dollar!
Needless to say, it took years to get the Sheriff off her back, as she had no means to pay, she ended up owing $$

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Wow, and in 1999 or so, maybe earier, Optus would not even let me have a post paid account, only prepaid.
Had to show overseas passport, was allready an Aust PR by then.
Flyfrequently, didnt realise it could be done so easily.
Maybe I went to the "wrong place", it was a booth at TTP in metro Adelaide.
Ta for that one Buzzard, now we know.
Ps, not to mention, too that Aust's mobile phone numbers are all recycled, so its not brand new, meaning that sometimes, calls can be to the previous line holder.
As mentioned by JohnK about his daughters "new" mobile phone number being bombarded, so to speak.
Scammers "run" the show, by the looks of things at this time.
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So, it can be done, if there is enough evidence for the scammers to be caught.

Two arrested following investigation into scammers impersonating AFP officers

Two Sydney men are scheduled to appear in Parramatta Local Court via video link today (2 April 2022) following an AFP-led Taskforce Vanguard investigation into alleged scammers impersonating AFP officers and Services Australia officials to steal money from Australian victims. ***Vision and audio...

www.afp.gov.au

 

[Forg]

So, it can be done, if there is enough evidence for the scammers to be caught.

There are probably a very small number of scammers in Oz; but the VAST majority are OS, and our law enforcement folk have zero authority where they are.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

That said though Forg, there is IFW World, run by Aussie Ken Gamble, that does work in liaison with overseas police forces, to get scammer call centres shut, both in Malaysia and the Philippines, not India so far, I have read in the news.
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According the the ABC news article of 2022, who ever ran the fake super transfer scam, had moved the proceeds of the crime out of the ANZ bank fast, so who ever opened that ANZ account, (it was the ASAL scam), had access to the proceeds of crime.
Ie, the money mules, so to speak.
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Can't say for sure, its either overseas students or someone who can operate a bank account in Aust, or had that had bank account log in access, even if from overseas.
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About a year or so, maybe more, my main bank, needed me to send them a copy of my passport, and asked what sort of income I earn.
Something about anti terror legislation or something, that the Aust fed govt needed to know.
Ah, its under "Sources of Funds and Sources of Wealth".

 

[Ade]

It’s Scams Galore Sunday here in sunny CBR.

 

[SOPOOR]

I every now and again sell stuff on fb marketplace and gumtree, but it feels like an epidemic of scams

Payid scams
Paypal scams
Oil rig scams
"Your amazon account is going to get cancelled" scams
Chinese call scams

Its quite overwhelming

Edit: yesterday i had a new gumtree account repeatedly send me irrelevant questions, and they were essentially having a one way conversation, when i got told by someone else that after 4 messages they can leave me feedback

 

[Forg]

Maybe it’s not a scam when you put the two together, use the performance enhancers to earn $1000 per day?

WRT an epidemic of scams, it doesn’t seem any worse to me than it’s been for the last 5-ish years at least. I’ve had fewer calls starting about 6-9 months after I stopped answering calls from unknown numbers, but the emails & SMS’s are still numerous (more emails than SMS’s) & claiming to be from every possible government or private organisation you can imagine that has a large number of customers.

One thing which was new was my mother getting a scam letter about installing solars, costs a lot more to send mail than make a fake call.

 

[SOPOOR]

WRT an epidemic of scams, it doesn’t seem any worse to me than it’s been for the last 5-ish years at least.

It certainly feels like an epidemic, maybe its because ive got listings on both gt and fb

 

[Flyfrequently]

Flyfrequently, didnt realise it could be done so easily.
Maybe I went to the "wrong place", it was a booth at TTP in metro Adelaide.

Neither did we @AustraliaPoochie!!
It was Vodafone at either Box Hill or Doncaster "Shoppo"
Bit of irony - she worked for them in early 2000's still being chased by the sheriff!

 

[OZDUCK]

I received an e-mail telling me that there were problems with my tax return and that I should download a PDF. Unfortunately the e-mail was stated to have come from the IRS.

 

[Ade]

More scams this morning …

Someone is very keen to push performance enhancement pills that they had to say it three times

 

[SOPOOR]

Got a missed/voice mail on a phone i barely use.

"Hi this is debra from commonwealth bank, $1800 worth of bitcoin was attempted just before, press 1 for"

In a aussie, auto, natural accent
First cba one of ive heard

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Maybe AI is now very good, or GPT or what ever systems they use now.
Either that, or maybe that there are Aussies out there who do need the money, have no scruples, and will do anything/say anything/allow their voice to be used for any purposes.
Channel 9 has a list of 6 podcasts, I think from 2022, about scams.
Will we ever win the war on scammers, no.
A big no.
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All money mules should have their funds seized, and never be able to be claimed back to them/not be returned.
Aust banks know who holds these accounts, but won't do much about it/them, talk is cheap.
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Sopoor, if that was the wordings exactly as you hear, there is a chance its an Indian who wrote the scrip.
The grammar is a bit off.