Scams like these

[Quickstatus]

Everybody - quick. Update your Comm bank details - just alerted by this email

Which came from this email address - looks totally legit to me

Ladies first!!

 

[love_the_life]

Everybody - quick. Update your Comm bank details - just alerted by this email
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Which came from this email address - looks totally legit to me
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Love it - and yes John K, idiots do fall for these scams. It doesn't matter how many warnings there are, they still do it, just like they send money to the Nigerian (and other) scams get $10M for helping them get money out of the country - really ?????!!!!! :shock:
If it looks like a scam, smells like a scam, well you know the rest.

 

[Quickstatus]

Idiots are not the only ones that fall for scams. Happens at every government election. The biggest Ponzi schemes are created by government when they say the best way to pay for current expenditure is to expand the future economic pie.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Everybody - quick. Update your Comm bank details - just alerted by this email
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Which came from this email address - looks totally legit to me
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I got one of these as well. Please send me your CBA NetBank account so I can avoid being locked out. I don't have any accounts with CBA.
Signed very worried from Brisbane.

 

[Pushka]

I got one of these as well. Please send me your CBA NetBank account so I can avoid being locked out. I don't have any accounts with CBA.
Signed very worried from Brisbane.

Then you have a really big problem. Why not flick them a return email and include your login details and let them sort it out.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Then you have a really big problem. Why not flick them a return email and include your login details and let them sort it out.

Did that but got no reply. Maybe because I used Cory Bernardi's email address?

 

[Pushka]

Did that but got no reply. Maybe because I used Cory Bernardi's email address?

Nice work.

 

[love_the_life]

I had a run at one stage with similar emails but they were for Lloyds and other UK banks - don't think so....

On the personal scam front, we have a couple of young women frequenting our shopping areas (including Manuka and inside Westfield Woden) with the story of needing money for a bus trip back to Yass as they are the victims of domestic violence. Apparently offers to assist by taking them to the police station are not well received.

 

[Pushka]

Ban Ki Moon seems to be my admirer recently.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Ban Ki Moon seems to be my admirer recently.

He's probably seen and been smitten with your beanies from PF in Dubai!

 

[Hvr]

I had a run at one stage with similar emails but they were for Lloyds and other UK banks - don't think so....

On the personal scam front, we have a couple of young women frequenting our shopping areas (including Manuka and inside Westfield Woden) with the story of needing money for a bus trip back to Yass as they are the victims of domestic violence. Apparently offers to assist by taking them to the police station are not well received.

That one has been going on for many years, I remember it from my Canberra days when I lived there a few years ago.

The old 'run out of petrol and need $20 to get home' still gets a run here every so often. I try not to laugh in their face and just keep walking.

 

[Pushka]

He's probably seen and been smitten with your beanies from PF in Dubai!

Do you think he might like me to knit one for his kammel?

 

[marki]

Ban Ki Moon seems to be my admirer recently.

I thought it was Kofi-Anan

 

[Buzzard]

That one has been going on for many years, I remember it from my Canberra days when I lived there a few years ago.

The old 'run out of petrol and need $20 to get home' still gets a run here every so often. I try not to laugh in their face and just keep walking.

I tell them I have a jerry can, we can put 20 litres of fuel in it etc etc
They always decline.

 

[AnnaB]

Got an overdue bill in the mail today....

Dear Valued Client,
According to our records you have a remaining outstanding balance of AU$ 3,861.00. The original invoice has not been entirely paid. The unpaid invoice #0164849413 is attached below for your consideration.
We are emailing you, hoping for understanding and in anticipation of timely repayment of the debt.
Please check out the file and do not hesitate to remit the funds. Otherwise, we will have to start legal actions against you.

---------
David Stephen
W. R. MEADOWS | LIQUI-HARD®
1926 - 2016 | Celebrating 90 Years



Too bad they emailed the same bill to 5 different recipients And then I got the amended version to me alone, but for another $1000. Cant believe that people fall for these things?!?

 

[Chimpy]

Got an overdue bill in the mail today....

Dear Valued Client,
According to our records you have a remaining outstanding balance of AU$ 3,861.00. The original invoice has not been entirely paid. The unpaid invoice #0164849413 is attached below for your consideration.
We are emailing you, hoping for understanding and in anticipation of timely repayment of the debt.
Please check out the file and do not hesitate to remit the funds. Otherwise, we will have to start legal actions against you.

---------
David Stephen
W. R. MEADOWS | LIQUI-HARD®
1926 - 2016 | Celebrating 90 Years



Too bad they emailed the same bill to 5 different recipients And then I got the amended version to me alone, but for another $1000. Cant believe that people fall for these things?!?

Mine was a week ago.

"Dear Valued Customer,Our records indicate that you have a remaining due balance of AU$ 4,993.00. The original invoice has not been entirely paid. The unpaid invoice #0185170969 is enclosed below for your revision.
We are contacting you, hoping for understanding and in anticipation of timely repayment of the due balance.
Please check out the document and do not hesitate to clear it. Otherwise, we will be forced to initiate legal actions against you.

---------
Michelle Clarke
W. R. MEADOWS | LIQUI-HARD ®
1926 - 2016 | Celebrating 90 Years
PO Box 678
Sylvania Waters 2224
Phone: 1300 200 797
Fax: 02 4845 5860
ABN: 447 732 565 75"

 

[marki]

I get very similar variants, off guard in a larger company it may work ?

 

[Pushka]

Was speaking with a bank worker yesterday. She said she knows of many instances where older people are coming into the branch wanting to make large withdrawals. As it is unusual activity for that person they ask why. They are told it is for "ABC" or whatever. A scam.

Another older gent had made withdrawals until he was queried by the teller. He had been taking the cash to the post office and sending it overseas. When finally queried he said he was in fear for his life due to demands he had received by phone. The teller convinced him to tell his son. That stopped it for a while but a few weeks later the teller was speaking to the post office worker (small shopping centre - everyone knows everyone else) and it had started up again but he was withdrawing money from a different bank. He was in genuine fear for his life!

Another phone scam from the same teller. People are called by 'centrelink' and they are told they should immediately hang up and call the police as their bank account details had been compromised. The person hangs up, but the original caller keeps the line open. So the people call 'the police' - the caller can hear the clicks, and 'answers' as the Police, obtains all the details then has the info to wipe their account.

 

[Pushka]

Lets forget the politics hey?

 

[JohnK]

Love it - and yes John K, idiots do fall for these scams. It doesn't matter how many warnings there are, they still do it, just like they send money to the Nigerian (and other) scams get $10M for helping them get money out of the country - really ?????!!!!! :shock:
If it looks like a scam, smells like a scam, well you know the rest.

Still struggling to understand who would fall for these scams.

Send $50 and we'll send you $10,000,000. Seriously?