Scams like these

[love_the_life]

Didn't want much did they coles525? I'm sure you emailed them straight back with all the details :shock:

 

[yohy?!]

sold an old samsung phone on ebay only to be contacted to ask for postage costs to Nigeria

seller claims to be the "2nd Vice President" of a family construction firm in Delray Beach, FL

 

[wandering_fred]

Last night the spam robots were busy. I was enticed with licenses, forms, credentials, and certificates. And multiples in most cases. All of which the email eagerly wanted me to inspect.

I elected not to be wandering

Fred

 

[drross]

Oh coriander you obviously have a problem.Being away from home I have time to waste.In the last 25 days I am up to 18 different women who obviously know me so are offering themselves for my pleasure.Poor darlings I have ignored them all.:shock:

must be a dr thing. 12 similar ladies in a single day on my work email account...wanting to do th'ings to me including some that sounded painful

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Someone at (([email protected])) has been sending out scam AGL energy bills.
Yep, they are at it again.
AGL sends theirs as (AGL electricity/gas bill)... scammer is using (your electricity bill).
Lumo uses the word invoice.
I am not game to forward the scam AGL bill to the address above.
The double dots is so that no one links to it, erroneously.
Edit: no employment contracts or offer/s of employment lately.

 

[Moody]

Someone at (([email protected])) has been sending out scam AGL energy bills.
Yep, they are at it again.
AGL sends theirs as (AGL electricity/gas bill)... scammer is using (your electricity bill).
Lumo uses the word invoice.
I am not game to forward the scam AGL bill to the address above.
The double dots is so that no one links to it, erroneously.
Edit: no employment contracts or offer/s of employment lately.

Yeah - I thought I had one of these scam bills, cunningly dressed up as a refund to get my attention. Then I noticed that there were no spelling mistakes, and only a single "sorry" rather than a grovelling apology. The final nail in the scam coffin was the fact that they suggested I do nothing and the $100 would come off my next bill, otherwise if I really really wanted to they could arrange a refund.

A scam of a different kind ....

 

[JohnK]

My email has been hammered this morning. Close to 20 emails that spam filter has not picked up. Sick and tired of this rubbish.

 

[wandering_fred]

Not to be content with references to the ATO, the latest round of scam emails have invoked the IRS...

I wonder if the IRS has a spoof or scam contact (email) address? [Or the ATO?]

Happy wandering

Fred

 

[JohnK]

How does an email address like this get through the spam filter?

contact-ph9h at lOpakZIQUq.part-statue.sightpeak.com

I am starting to see huge merit in registered email addresses only being allowed to send email.

{John} your Woolworths package is about to dispatch. Confirm it here.

{John}, you have an unconfirmed package at Woolworths. Please pick it up.
Trouble seeing this message? View here

Dear {Name},
Choose one of the gift boxes below and see which surprise we have in store for you.

And there is an unsubscribe link at the bottom.

 

[drron]

Dollie knows her stuff.

We know what women want.They want you!

:shock:

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

No, it's foreign currency that overseas supposedly girls want.
Nadya wanted a (mate) her or his words.
My oh my Nadya, you love to travel?
Heh, so do I mate/miss.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Next I presuppose s/he will ask if s/he should fly EK with a QF flight number.

 

[Julesmac]

I must have a really good spam filter. Dammit some of these look tremendous fun. No night time calls on the landline either

 

[wandering_fred]

I must have a really good spam filter. Dammit some of these look tremendous fun. No night time calls on the landline either

If your general posting rate matches AFF(300 posts since 2007) , I'd venture that you don't "get around enough" to publicize your "existence on the net".

In other words, you need to up your rate of wandering :shock:

Fred

But I'm biased

 

[cove]

Received the AGL one. I get job offer scams all the time now as well.

 

[Simo]

I get job offers and also trusted long lost relatives wanting to help get a piece of a diamond mining billionaire who has a truck load of cash and we will share it

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Cove, did you hover your mouse over the senders address to see who its spoofed off/or if someone at another company apart from AGL "has too much free time" and is sending out spam/scam utility bills/invoices?
Or do you just delete them.
I wish I could learn basic Hindi/Urdu/Punjabi to surprise the scammers.
Ie, *(Mr Singh (ghee/gee)* what is the gee that seems to come after names?
Long time ago, I did have one from an Indian lady from the "Friends Computer Centre" saying my computer is infected.
If the callers use Mr John and John is your first name, not your surname, its an Indian scammer.
Chorde scammer? Is that the right spelling?
Edit: just checked, je or jee/jhe is a honorific title in India, lets call the next scam/spam caller *hello, are you spammer/scammer gee, yes*?
But seriously though, we are told not to play along with them, aren't we?

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Now AGL scam email reads as (Your energy consumption)... not bill.
Could do better!
Am on iPod so can't hover over sender.
No (my real) name mentioned in header.

 

[UP4014]

Now AGL scam email reads as (Your energy consumption)... not bill.
Could do better!

I received that one as well, and as an AGL customer who didn't read it properly very nearly clicked......but it referred to electricity and I only use them for gas so looked a bit more closely.

Lesson learned, don't rush if you think of clicking.

 

[RAM]

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