Scams like these

[Forg]

Does anyone still get the Telstra tech dept calls, of course, its fake.
On a scale, I think that the scammers must move migrated onto the linkt scams, instead of the Telstra fake tech dept calls.
They must have discovered lint is more profitable.

The Linkt messages are automated, you can send a lot more of those out per second than you can get minions to make calls, even at Mumbai or Manila slave rates … it’s much cheaper!

 

[p--and--t]

Does anyone still get the Telstra tech dept calls, of course, its fake.
On a scale, I think that the scammers must move migrated onto the linkt scams, instead of the Telstra fake tech dept calls.
They must have discovered lint is more profitable.

They have got a bit smarter now they know Telstra isn't the major provider and instead say this is “your internet provider” - there is a long silence and then usually hangup when I say - if you are my internet provider, what is the company name and my account number.

I got one of thise calls about three weeks sgo with strong Indian accent. When she started stammering and making strange scammy excuses i screamed rather loudly into the phone. Hopefully the noise through her headset gave her an earache.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Maybe the linkt ones will stop with the SYD guy getting nabbed.
Or hopefully it would stop.
Am surprised one of those police tech guys in the news article saying the machine is quite prevalent.
Would have thought something like that would be hard to import from China.
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P--and---t, I know they say not to play along or reply to the scammers, but as they called you, you could have done a learning experiment.

 

[Forg]

Maybe the linkt ones will stop with the SYD guy getting nabbed.
Or hopefully it would stop.
Am surprised one of those police tech guys in the news article saying the machine is quite prevalent.
Would have thought something like that would be hard to import from China.

Most of the scamming is done overseas, they don’t need to import anything to Oz when it’s done from another country … which also means the Sydney guy being nabbed will have zero effect, Chennai police have bigger problems than dealing with someone attempting to scam Australians, especially given that in “haggle cultures” there’s no problem with ripping someone off as that’s just “winning” a transaction.

 

[latawiec]

They have got a bit smarter now they know Telstra isn't the major provider and instead say this is “your internet provider” - there is a long silence and then usually hangup when I say - if you are my internet provider, what is the company name and my account number.

I got one of thise calls about three weeks sgo with strong Indian accent. When she started stammering and making strange scammy excuses i screamed rather loudly into the phone. Hopefully the noise through her headset gave her an earache.

We are still getting them on average around 2 per week....

 

[latawiec]

And this time Netflix.

....but I am not the Netflix subscriber ....

 

[OATEK]

 

[latawiec]

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....it looks quite convincing but a SCAM, and may get some fooled...

And not many people know how to check the address under the blue link....

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Got the linkt one at 3.45am this morning.
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http(s)://www.
I think that businesses have to pass a certain test, to get the secure link, ie, the s in the web address.
Some businesses do not want to pay for it, so they won't have the (s), like for eg, the bom website, its not a secure website, ie, no (s).
Bet the link in the sms/email above would be without the http(s)://www.

 

[Brissy1]

My scam calls seem to come in the afternoon, and scam text in the very early am. So in their time, are the phone scammers working the morning shifts, and text scammers evenings, l wonder.

 

[FishFood]

Got the linkt one at 3.45am this morning.
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http(s)://www.
I think that businesses have to pass a certain test, to get the secure link, ie, the s in the web address.
Some businesses do not want to pay for it, so they won't have the (s), like for eg, the bom website, its not a secure website, ie, no (s).
Bet the link in the sms/email above would be without the http(s)://www.

To use https, a website operator needs to have a TLS (also commonly referred to as SSL) certificate. These certificates are available for free so with a small amount of technical ability anyone can use https.

Scammers essentially always use https, since using http would be a red flag that many people pick up on these days. Https doesn't tell you if the website is legitimate, authentic or trustworthy, only that the network traffic is encrypted between the web server and your device.

 

[p--and--t]

My scam calls seem to come in the afternoon, and scam text in the very early am. So in their time, are the phone scammers working the morning shifts, and text scammers evenings, l wonder.

Would hazard a guess- Depends on time zone of country the scabs live in

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

No, you got it wrong Brissy.
Don't think of it as on our Aust time, think of it more so, the Indian time.
Few hrs back.
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Scambaiters, there is the one with a slight Russian accent, or lisp when he narrates his videos on Youtube, does succeed in doing a reverse camera, on the call centters in India, of course, I do watch the videos with a bit of sascram/grain of salt.

 

[latawiec]

To use https, a website operator needs to have a TLS (also commonly referred to as SSL) certificate. These certificates are available for free so with a small amount of technical ability anyone can use https.

Scammers essentially always use https, since using http would be a red flag that many people pick up on these days. Https doesn't tell you if the website is legitimate, authentic or trustworthy, only that the network traffic is encrypted between the web server and your device.

Fully agree.
Https doesn't guarantee safety of the website but only encrypted data transfers.

MY CONCLUSION:

Https doesn't guarantee that the website is legitimate or trustworthy.

Https only secure encrypted network traffic between the web server and your device.

Therefore, never use/click on any blue link in emails or that in SMS because it could be SCAM.

Be aware that the invisible address hidden under the blue link might be false & unsafe.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

I know we can hover over sender in emails to see the unmasked sender supposedly is, or the latest going one step back.
But that can't be done on a smartphone can it?
Even if a stylus is used, or is there a special program that can look and see who the real sender of the linkt sms is.

 

[latawiec]

I know we can hover over sender in emails to see the unmasked sender supposedly is, or the latest going one step back.
But that can't be done on a smartphone can it?
Even if a stylus is used, or is there a special program that can look and see who the real sender of the linkt sms is.

Yes, you can hover over sender in emails to see the unmasked sender email address.

On most of smartphones you can, instead clicking, just put the cursor over the "blue link" and you can see the hidden link address that you can "copy to the clipboard" and next paste somewhere (but not in the browser) to see it in detail and see the real link what the sender wants you to open...

 

[Forg]

is there a special program that can look and see who the real sender of the linkt sms is.

Not really, not without being the various Telcos involved ... you need to go through the history of a messages' path through the different parts of the network it's traveled through ... the data in the message you get is fake.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Never seen the blue circle on my samsung galaxy tho.
Usually I just press the sender circle, go to block and delete.
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iphones have an "i" for info on caller.
On my Samsung, there is an "i" for calls, but not for sms.
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So, on Samsung and Huawei, have to go via the 3 vertical dots and block.

 

[Forg]

iphones have an "i" for info on caller.
On my Samsung, there is an "i" for calls, but not for sms.

That caller info is the info which is faked by most scam calls though, it's almost never the real caller. In the case of illegal stuff, it's probably fair to say it is never the real caller.

The only reason blocking sometimes works is because some of the scammers do re-use the same faked 'phone number, occasionally. I've never been called by the same scammer on the same number though, the repeats I don't want are almost always real-but-annoying calls (like charities - or religions running a registered charity for tax-free profit).

 

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