SCAMS -post your advice of the latest here.

[Fulvio]

yeah that's good advise, I got my email hacked when half asleep checking it one morning by clicking on a link.. lesson learnt the hard way

Get in the habit of selecting the text and copying rather than clicking the link. That way you not only avoid hidden surprises, but you can edit the url when you paste it if need be, to remove tracking tokens and the like.

[interest]

I got this today with the Australian coat of arms & ATO letter head
personally addressed to me.
Checked the ATO scams website & here is the same letter sitting on their scam page.
The coat of arms & ATO looked a little blurry.
DO NOT PRESS THE BUTTON!! if you do you will install a virus.
BASTARDS!!!!!


After we've processed your tax return, we have issued you with a notice of assessment.
You are entitled to a tax refund.
Refund reference: Ref/141/41/2014
Amount to be refunded: $415.15 AUD
Email on file: xxxxxxxx@optusnet.com.au
 

To access your tax refund form, click on the ATO button.

 Tax Form

  Get it done the right way!

Your refund may take longer to process if:

not including your date of birth
including incorrect card account details
not including any name change from a previous year's return

[runway]

Report all these dogs to the real so called senders in full header then mark as spam

[Oldcoinchest]

yeah that's good advise, I got my email hacked when half asleep checking it one morning by clicking on a link.. lesson learnt the hard way

Get in the habit of selecting the text and copying rather than clicking the link. That way you not only avoid hidden surprises, but you can edit the url when you paste it if need be, to remove tracking tokens and the like.

Thanks for the advise, I have a 2 step log in process now aswell, a google authenticator app where the code changes every 30 seconds

[JeffH]

Here's a new one to me. Very amateurish -anyone sucked in by this almost deserves to be fleeced.

From: WESTERN UNION (mailto:wumtservice1@gmail.com; return address shows as info@westernunionmoneytransfar.com)
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2015 5:17 AM
Subject:WESTERN UNION!

Dear Beneficiary,
 
Hope this mail finds you well!
 
We are writing you from the desk of Mr. Hikmet Ersek, Chief Executive Officer and President of The Western Union Company,this letter is to notify you about your compensation as one of the fraud victim that sent money via our service(Western Union Money Transfer).
 
A regular mail was dispatched to you a month ago but yet no reply from you. We are contacting you again because the instruction stipulates that this fund should be paid directly to you.
 
This have been agreed upon and have been approved by the European Union(EU)to compensate you with the sum of (Eight hundthored and twenty thousand United States Dollars) as one of the scam victim.
You are hereby advised to acknowledge this mail and help us to reconfirm your identity for security reasons.
 
When you respond I shall send you a copy of your Fund Approval Certificate from the European Union and further instruction on how to claim your funds.
 
Kindly acknowledge the receipt of this email or call as soon as you receive it.
 
Yours faithfully,
Mr. Hikmet Ersek.
Tel:+14842730569
Western Union Company.
(c)2015.

[JeffH]

Yesterday I received an email from "Mr.Bill Gates" and he wants to 'gift' me $5 MILLION USD. Maybe I should revise and expand my bucket list now. He does ask that I spend it wisely to help alleviate the level of poverty in my region.
I am apparently one of only ten lucky individuals selected to receive this gift. And he doesn't even know my name.
All I need to do is send some personal details to him or Melinda using the link he so kindly provided.

Oh dear, I accidentally (on purpose) permanently deleted it.

[autocoupler]

Last week we received an email with the subject heading.."Would you like to experience a threesome" :shock: The message then asked to click on the link below to view my wonderful body :dodgy: No way was I going there, who knows what nasty virus awaited :diablo:

[Unicorn]

Geez, they're both classics Jeff & Auto ..... I continually remind the kids never to click on anything of that ilk.

(btw: I was so so so so tempted to reply regarding the offered internet "threeway" on the cyber "freeway", but I thought better of it, well I think I thought better of it, perhaps I didn't press backspace, so if it's here then it's the latter and I've obviously had already licked the envelope :whistle2: ). :angel:

[Enlilninlil]

I sold shoes on ebay and the buyer postal address was in the US, but wanted it sent to Nigeria to someone doing charity work, they sent fake Paypal and ebay emails saying they paid. Of course I checked with both companies and no pay. After a few days they send ebay email saying the account will be closed unless I send item. Their account is now closed.

[JeffH]

."Would you like to experience a threesome" The message then asked to click on the link below to view my wonderful body

Maybe it was this link The Vic Willis Trio - If I Said You Had A Beautiful Body

[Fulvio]

Not exactly on-topic, but not exactly off-topic either:

http://www.coindesk.com/gaw-faces-ponzi-scheme-charges-from-sec/

Josh Garza is a piece of shyte who scammed about 10,000 people (though I actually made money out of it, and had I not been in hospital for 4 days getting my eye fixed, would have made a ton more) with a ponzi.

Scum like this deserve everything the courts can do to them.

[JeffH]

Some of the scammers don't even try very hard. This one is a real amateur hour effort. Reported to PayPal then permanently deleted as per my usual practice.

I could, but won't, suggest quite a few improvements to make this more convincing. :taunt:

Strangely no spelling mistakes and only one grammar blooper. This type of "phishing" scam is usually riddled with them.

[runway]

eBay nor PayPal will never send you emails asking for details
If they do just forward the email to spoof@ebay.com.au or spoof@paypal.com.au

[Basil]

This PayPal scam was on ACA a couple of nights ago.The interesting thing is how anyone these days can have several Hundred Bank Accts,most with Suncorp apparently.

https://www.9news.com.au/national/2018/03/19/18/58/scammers-make-millions-in-online-fraud

They were using a variety of tricks but the one mentioned by the Police involved hundreds of Ebay & GT. Accts.,they would buy/sell non existent goods between them and then claim on PayPal for non delivery.When one Acct. got to hot they move onto another.
This was similar to the Laptop scam on Ebay/GT a few years back,the guy that ended up tracking down the Crim. was a scammed member of the Public with "superior,highly advanced computer skills",Ebay/PP & the Police had no clue.
He had dozens of Ebay Accts & Bank Accts.,he would buy/sell cheap non existent laptops between them and set up FB where it showed he had sold a dozen Toshiba Notebooks(for eg) and received glowing FB from happy buyers.
When he had sold a bunch to unexpecting buyers and the Emails started flooding in for non receipt of goods,he would move onto another fake Acct. and start again with HP(for eg) Notebooks.
Hope that all makes sense,....Jungle out there,extreme buyer beware on any major purchase these days.

[JeffH]

NBN Co. has promised a technician will visit (between 1pm and 5pm) this afternoon to check my intermittent internet connection. I have had 5 dropouts, totalling 14 minutes in the a period of ¾ hour since I fired up my ping monitor.
The technician just called to say he would be here in a ½ hour.
Meantime, in the last hour I have received calls from "Telstra Technical Department" and "Windows" to advise I have a problem with my computer and offering to help me fix it -told them what I thought of that scam and hung up. Purely coincidence but that sort of thing could be a real trap for someone with no technical know how.