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Buzzard said:
They just keep trying.
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Well … kinda. The list of numbers they target is pretty much random, so while they’re trying, they don‘t really know who they’re trying with nor that someone else tried the same last week.
 
The scam calls would stop instantly if the number could not be spoofed.
I don’t know why the banks have not started a petition to out law it.
 
Bundy Bear said:
The scam calls would stop instantly if the number could not be spoofed.
I don’t know why the banks have not started a petition to out law it.
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Because there’s no penalty for banks. Should by law have to pay back scams that operate through a person’s bank account. Then they would lobby for proper scam protection.
 
Actually, its just that no one wants to admit, but there are ways of chasing money transfers.
In Aust, its BSB and account #, or pay anyone using payid (ie phone no), overseas its swift codes, so they know the money is ending up in Africa.
Guess its just too troublesome for banks to spend time doing a trace.
Looks like Aust still has money mules too, there was a lady in the northern suburbs of Adelaide, who got nabbed for it.
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My phone now does not pling, for lots of scams of the "non delivery" sms, esp as I have turned on block private numbers, but if I go to my phone's setting's blocked numbers, or spam and blocked sms, it will still show up there.
So while I don't waste time, as the phone does not ring/no sms pling with scam sms, time is still needed to delete calls and sms each day.
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04(xx251891).
04(xx601729).
Bottom one had an attachment.
xx so the system wouldn't put it on here in full.
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In regards to Buzzard's above, their grammar needs improvement.
 
AustraliaPoochie said:
Actually, its just that no one wants to admit, but there are ways of chasing money transfers.
In Aust, its BSB and account #, or pay anyone using payid (ie phone no), overseas its swift codes, so they know the money is ending up in Africa.
Guess its just too troublesome for banks to spend time doing a trace.
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The scammers don’t leave ill-gotten gains in an account stuff can be traced to, they withdraw the moulah & disappear.

On the topic of changing the mobile telephone system so that spoofing isn’t possible; that’s a global thing, you have to convince the people currently vying for their design to be “6G“ & all the ‘phone manufacturers and Telco’s.
 
Helpful reminder from Services NSW about information you place online.

I never reveal my birthday on sites like Linkedin which leaked everyone's data, incl. mine, some years ago.
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I do wonder if scammers are patient enough to build a profile from posts on many different sites.
 
prozac said:
I do wonder if scammers are patient enough to build a profile from posts on many different sites.
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It’d be pretty simple to launch AI Al Gore Rhythms at that … it’d need to trawl a helluva lot of interweb for a very very long time to know the prozac user on AFF is the same user as climbingking on the rockclimbers.org.au forums, and then get enough disparate info from both to be worthwhile.
 
A few years ago my bank notified me that I'd used their ATM that had a skimmer in it. The ATM was in the window of my local branch. There was absolutely no sign of anything amiss.

No money was taken. My child used to like 'helping me' press the buttons. I think there were too many hands obscuring the PIN 🤣

I now get out any cash that I need (rarely) from the service desk at the supermarket or go into the branch.
 
If they can copy the Linkt logo so easily, I would be very sus about the Service NSW or the Pizza Hut email or sms as well.
Not only these 3, but logos of all the organizations we deal with, seems so easy to cut, scan, and then copy and paste onto the iffy umm "is that for real" kosher emails or sms.
I don't drive, and have never driven in NSW/Vic, and they (scammers) believe they can hook me for the toll that I supposedly missed paying in MEL/SYD a while back, hah.
 
AustraliaPoochie said:
If they can copy the Linkt logo so easily, I would be very sus about the Service NSW or the Pizza Hut email or sms as well.
Not only these 3, but logos of all the organizations we deal with, seems so easy to cut, scan, and then copy and paste onto the iffy umm "is that for real" kosher emails or sms.
I don't drive, and have never driven in NSW/Vic, and they (scammers) believe they can hook me for the toll that I supposedly missed paying in MEL/SYD a while back, hah.
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The Services NSW email was not a scam, merely warning about scams. I thought it worthy to post.
The toll scammers have no connection to Services NSW....they are independent operators. 🤣
 

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