Scams like these

[RAM]

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.

One good aspect of GMail is that it automatically shows the true email sender's address if you go so far as to look at the email.

The AGL email scam is pretty good - correct number of digits in account number (that makes a change). However, given the number of gas customers they have...

Also, the amount of the bill would probably be ball park for around 30-40% of their customers.



I guess John Patrick may have been fooled into clicking.

 

[Pushka]

Just raised it to a new level of weirdness.

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[JessicaTam]

The various computer discussion has been moved: http://www.australianfrequentflyer....round/computer-help-and-discussion-70242.html

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

AGL consumption and suggestions et al are scary.
The mere fact they are the company being used as the scapegoats in this.
No Origin or other utilities except AGL.
Do the scammers know where a person is based, my email does not list .au at the end.

 

[Buzzard]

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

What you use as a spam filter?
I use Spam Fighter and find it very good.

 

[JohnK]

I must be a bit slow as I cannot see how anyone falls for these emails.

From Coles

Dear johnk,



Welcome to the Testers Club. For a great start we would like to offer
you a great opportunity to receive a $1000 Coles Gift Card.
With this $1000 Gift Card you can test all the products you want.


Please mind, only people with the email invitation (like this) will be accepted for the entry. Dont miss out.

Confirm your invitation here (link removed)

Good luck!

Don`t want mail? You can be removed by: clicking this link (link removed)



Kapow Media - Box 112 - 1800 Marikina City - Philippines

Coles is sending gift cards from Philippines?

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

If its honest, they probably buy it in bulk and sell it plus postage making its prices higher.
Granted most likely its a scam to send millions of spam to every muppet they hook.
I am not game after seeing someone I know get spammed by 100 marketing emails per day.
They had somehow done a survey.

 

[JohnK]

What you use as a spam filter?
I use Spam Fighter and find it very good.

Whatever Outlook uses after blocking posts for years. These spam emails used to end up in Junk but for a few days were in the Inbox. Perhaps Outlook had issues.

 

[Cossie]

Use thunderbird and update the filter options as you go, not perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but it works if you update it as you receive more spam. Works for me.

 

[Foreigner]

The AGL scam, if one falls for it, costs about $900 in ransomware...

http://m.smh.com.au/technology/cons...-copies-agl-energy-bills-20160603-gpb9ty.html

 

[Bolthead]

The AGL scam, if one falls for it, costs about $900 in ransomware...

Thousands targeted by 'ransomware' email scam which copies AGL Energy bills | smh.com.au

I'm not game to click on your link.... after all, you are a Foreigner.

 

[Foreigner]

You may not want to but another scam targets travellers booking apparent fake airbnb accommodation:

http://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/jun/04/travellers-fake-airbnb-scam

 

[JohnK]

I just got scammed but somehow got away with it.

AGL bill arrived in my inbox. It's for $204.14 but I just asked to go back to monthly. Using smartphone I then clicked on view my bill twice but Google opened up on the smartphone.

Luckily to help protect my security some of the content in the message was blocked. Thank goodness. The email looks realistic. Fooled me. How did I miss the email address joanne at oliveskincare dot com dot au at the top?

 

[drron]

I got another from Chicago University wondering why I had not downloaded their stock picking software.They obviously had a little had a problem with English as the header was-Get Payed for your time.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

JohnK if you have a laptop at home or office, when a sus AGL bill comes in, hover over sender.
Or go to (your true honest AGL bill/invice via google) to AGL Au website.
iPhone could now be at risk.

 

[love_the_life]

JohnK if you have a laptop at home or office, when a sus AGL bill comes in, hover over sender.
Or go to (your true honest AGL bill/invice via google) to AGL Au website.
iPhone could now be at risk.

Yep AP, he saw who it was from but clicked through without really thinking, as you do if it appears real. iPhone will have blocked anything untoward.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

I never click a link.
Apart from hovering I (would) go straight to the AGL website.
Guess any spammers out there reading this would put up the effort now in my case seeing I mentioned I would go to AGL website meaning I am an AGL customer.

 

[Major]

Also received the AGL email this morning. As we are not AGL customers...delete

 

[JohnK]

JohnK if you have a laptop at home or office, when a sus AGL bill comes in, hover over sender.
Or go to (your true honest AGL bill/invice via google) to AGL Au website.
iPhone could now be at risk.

Thanks. I was suspicious but simply thought AGL had made a mistake and sent monthly bill instead quarterly bill in 2 more months. When I saw the higher than expected amount I wanted to investigate.

Luckily the links were blocked. The linked were blocked as the Spam filter was unsure about the email. So why deliver the email to my Inbox? Think Hotmail/Outlook has been having issues recently fully detecting spam/scam.

 

[AnnaB]

Got this lovely bill today Too bad I am not with AGL... and I dont think my electricity bill would come from Italy. Looks official enough to catch someone though.