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GordyL Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 4365 Hate Town Gender:	Scams May 29^th, 2016 at 10:06am I check and clean my spam folder every day as I get a fair bit of legit stuff that lands in there. I've seen the Auspost ones, a fake one from a courier company I've used but here's a new one and I'm granting point for creativity. I would however lowered the amount to $250 or $500 to still get the greedy but make it more believable.
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cods Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 88048	Re: Scams Reply #1 - May 29^th, 2016 at 10:10am what about letting us all in on it gordy.. scams are horrible but if we are not aware of them we get taken in.....I never look in my folder to be honest.....but every once in a while something gets through.....I rarely open them....I am just not interested but if I was I could get sucked in..
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Reply #2 - May 29^th, 2016 at 10:20am

cods wrote on May 29^th, 2016 at 10:10am:

what about letting us all in on it gordy..

scams are horrible but if we are not aware of them we get taken in.....I never look in my folder to be honest.....but every once in a while something gets through.....I rarely open them....I am just not interested but if I was I could get sucked in..

I read my business email thru gmail and the spam filter is brilliant. All the phishing emails end up in the spam folder, but as I said I get 2 or 3 legit emails ending up there every week, so I sift thru it every day.

Simple rule. Never open links from email unless it's someone you actually know or was expecting.

The obvious stuff is obvious, African millionaires, dick pills, earn $2000 a day, but there is much more subtle stuff now, and the Bunnings voucher is a good example.

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Reply #3 - May 29^th, 2016 at 10:22am

I have had a couple recently purporting to be from the ATO, its a recorded message that goes on suggesting you are in trouble with the Tax Office and asking you to call a Sydney number (02). That caught my attention so I tried calling it back immediately but got no answer.

I thought I would report it but found the online reporting site a bit of a pain to use so gave up.

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freediver Gold Member Online www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 47472 At my desk.	Re: Scams Reply #4 - May 29^th, 2016 at 10:24am Now they have your phone number marked as a sucker or a tax cheat.
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Reply #5 - May 29^th, 2016 at 10:27am

GordyL wrote on May 29^th, 2016 at 10:20am:

cods wrote on May 29^th, 2016 at 10:10am:

what about letting us all in on it gordy..

scams are horrible but if we are not aware of them we get taken in.....I never look in my folder to be honest.....but every once in a while something gets through.....I rarely open them....I am just not interested but if I was I could get sucked in..

I read my business email thru gmail and the spam filter is brilliant. All the phishing emails end up in the spam folder, but as I said I get 2 or 3 legit emails ending up there every week, so I sift thru it every day.

Simple rule. Never open links from email unless it's someone you actually know or was expecting.

The obvious stuff is obvious, African millionaires, dick pills, earn $2000 a day, but there is much more subtle stuff now, and the Bunnings voucher is a good example.

thank god for the filter....there should be a hot line to report these scams..

god people can report a commercial that offends them with ease... yet something like this and you have to be computer savvy

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Reply #6 - May 29^th, 2016 at 10:33am

cods wrote on May 29^th, 2016 at 10:27am:

GordyL wrote on May 29^th, 2016 at 10:20am:

cods wrote on May 29^th, 2016 at 10:10am:

what about letting us all in on it gordy..

scams are horrible but if we are not aware of them we get taken in.....I never look in my folder to be honest.....but every once in a while something gets through.....I rarely open them....I am just not interested but if I was I could get sucked in..

I read my business email thru gmail and the spam filter is brilliant. All the phishing emails end up in the spam folder, but as I said I get 2 or 3 legit emails ending up there every week, so I sift thru it every day.

Simple rule. Never open links from email unless it's someone you actually know or was expecting.

The obvious stuff is obvious, African millionaires, dick pills, earn $2000 a day, but there is much more subtle stuff now, and the Bunnings voucher is a good example.

thank god for the filter....there should be a hot line to report these scams..

god people can report a commercial that offends them with ease... yet something like this and you have to be computer savvy

They're all coming from outside of Australia so not much action can be taken.

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Redmond Neck Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 20720 ACT Gender:	Re: Scams Reply #7 - May 29^th, 2016 at 10:42am freediver wrote on May 29^th, 2016 at 10:24am: Now they have your phone number marked as a sucker or a tax cheat. Because I rang it back, that tells them nothing, it might also mean I am a Cop as well.
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greggerypeccary Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 131554 Gender:	Re: Scams Reply #8 - May 29^th, 2016 at 10:46am cods wrote on May 29^th, 2016 at 10:27am: thank god for the filter....there should be a hot line to report these scams.. Scam Watch
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Reply #9 - May 29^th, 2016 at 10:50am

Redmond Neck wrote on May 29^th, 2016 at 10:22am:

I have had a couple recently purporting to be from the ATO, its a recorded message that goes on suggesting you are in trouble with the Tax Office and asking you to call a Sydney number (02). That caught my attention so I tried calling it back immediately but got no answer.

I thought I would report it but found the online reporting site a bit of a pain to use so gave up.

Had quite a few of those left on my answering machine last year. One so far this year. Either 02 or 03 numbers.

But, I guarantee they're not coming from Sydney or Melbourne or anywhere in Australia.

https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/news/telephone-calls-alleging-fake-arrest-warrants-...

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The scammer will ask you to telephone a number that appears to be Australian but is likely to be a VOIP number.

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Reply #10 - May 29^th, 2016 at 10:52am

Carl D wrote on May 29^th, 2016 at 10:50am:

Redmond Neck wrote on May 29^th, 2016 at 10:22am:

I have had a couple recently purporting to be from the ATO, its a recorded message that goes on suggesting you are in trouble with the Tax Office and asking you to call a Sydney number (02). That caught my attention so I tried calling it back immediately but got no answer.

I thought I would report it but found the online reporting site a bit of a pain to use so gave up.

Had quite a few of those left on my answering machine last year. One so far this year. Either 02 or 03 numbers.

But, I guarantee they're not coming from Sydney or Melbourne or anywhere in Australia.

Yes I imagine you are correct, not sure how they are forwarding a false Calling Number Identification signal on the phone system though? As the number was in the message and recorded on the CLI display of the phone

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Reply #11 - May 29^th, 2016 at 10:55am

Redmond Neck wrote on May 29^th, 2016 at 10:52am:

Yes I imagine you are correct, not sure how they are forwarding a false Calling Number Identification signal on the phone system though?

I just edited my last post. They're not using the phone system as such. They're using VOIP and faking the numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_over_IP

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Reply #12 - May 29^th, 2016 at 10:58am

Carl D wrote on May 29^th, 2016 at 10:55am:

Redmond Neck wrote on May 29^th, 2016 at 10:52am:

Yes I imagine you are correct, not sure how they are forwarding a false Calling Number Identification signal on the phone system though?

I just edited my last post. They're not using the phone system as such. They're using VOIP and faking the numbers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_over_IP

Actually You are spot on, this is the same as sending a text message on Skype that shows up as coming from your mobile.

Thanks Carl

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Reply #13 - May 29^th, 2016 at 11:00am

Scam phone calls are very common here as well. I get men who sound like they are from India who claim to work for Microsoft and need remote control of my computer. We have caller ID and I generally say "meat department" when I know it is a scammer. They sound confused and ask for one of us by name and I tell them they have reached the meat department at the local Walmart.

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Redmond Neck Gold Member Offline OzPolitic Posts: 20720 ACT Gender:	Re: Scams Reply #14 - May 29^th, 2016 at 11:02am What now begs the question is why do they use this recorded message and then dont speak to you if the call back number is dodgy, unless they are waiting to hear you speak and in my case I didnt? Dunno?
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