Scam Alert!!!!

[TrueTiger]

Hey fellow forumers,be on the ball if you cop a text telling you that "your debit card has been temporarily suspended due to suspicious transaction please update your details to activate it....help 02 80074587"....
This is a scam do not give them your details....ring your bank and check that it hasnt been tampered with...I went to the atm and all ok.....

 

[Guest]

There's plenty out there at the moment - my advice is simple - if you receive a message from a number or name NOT already saved in your phone - delete it straight away and report the number to Scam Watch.

 

[Demps]

Lot of this garbage going around at the moment.

I got an email on my work email on the 8.9.2021 from Australian Federal Police saying I'm wanted in court on the 8th of September 2021 for a law violation.

Gave me an unsubscribe option.

Laughed. Ignored.

 

[WT2K]

Thankfully my service seems to be blocking these spam texts and calls as of late.

 

[Spartan117]

These days the biggest way to have your PC or Mobile compromised is by delivering Malicious software via Links or being tricked into handing over your very personal details.

Dont click unless u really have to.

 

[Jedi_Tiger]

I had one the other week impersonating my bank, banks will never ask you anything via sms

 

[tigerbalm]

people still fall for this?

 

[hank37w]

For a few days I was getting scam parcel delivery messages, sometimes 2 or 3 a day.

Must be so many people getting sucked in with all the on line shopping that is happening and especially with the delays in deliveries at the moment.

 

[jadtiger]

people still fall for this?

Some people always will.They work on the basis that even if they get an extremely low response rate it is cost effective for the scammer.

 

[mike]

There's plenty out there at the moment - my advice is simple - if you receive a message from a number or name NOT already saved in your phone - delete it straight away and report the number to Scam Watch.

While generally your advice is sound Willow a number of government agencies will call you from a number with no calling ID eg the ATO does this and then wants you to verify who you are by giving them your personal details, don’t ever do this. It’s a pretty stupid procedure on their part. Get a return number you can call them back on and this is the important part, ring the agency on their main contact line and verify that the call from the number they gave you was actually from them before returning any calls or better still ask them to put you through to the person that called.

 

[Demps]

people still fall for this?

Yep, one of my good mates is a cop and said every week some one comes in as a victim.

Some lady handed over 20k in a lock box to scammers.

No idea how or why but obviously they're targeting elderly.

 

[hank37w]

There's plenty out there at the moment - my advice is simple - if you receive a message from a number or name NOT already saved in your phone - delete it straight away and report the number to Scam Watch.

While generally your advice is sound Willow a number of government agencies will call you from a number with no calling ID eg the ATO does this and then wants you to verify who you are by giving them your personal details, don’t ever do this. It’s a pretty stupid procedure on their part. Get a return number you can call them back on and this is the important part, **ring the agency on their main contact line** and verify that the call from the number they gave you was actually from them before returning any calls or better still ask them to put you through to the person that called.

and stay on the line listening to elevator music and inane recorded messages for several hours.

Having your bank account cleaned out is probably less painful.

 

[mike]

There's plenty out there at the moment - my advice is simple - if you receive a message from a number or name NOT already saved in your phone - delete it straight away and report the number to Scam Watch.

While generally your advice is sound Willow a number of government agencies will call you from a number with no calling ID eg the ATO does this and then wants you to verify who you are by giving them your personal details, don’t ever do this. It’s a pretty stupid procedure on their part. Get a return number you can call them back on and this is the important part, **ring the agency on their main contact line** and verify that the call from the number they gave you was actually from them before returning any calls or better still ask them to put you through to the person that called.

and stay on the line listening to elevator music and inane recorded messages for several hours.

Having your bank account cleaned out is probably less painful.

It's an absolute pain I know. What the government agencies should do is send you an email through the MyGov app (you log onto the MyGov to get the email) and tell you they are going to ring you at this time from this number.

 

[hank37w]

Won't happen Mike, it makes too much sense.

We are dealing with bureaucrats.

 

[mike]

Won't happen Mike, it makes too much sense.

We are dealing with bureaucrats.

I know, I’ve been telling them for a very long time to change the procedure, alas without success.

 

[balmain boy]

Oh, i thought this was another post about our 2021 season

 

[Fade.To.Black]

I got scammed a while back by some bloke stating "this is now my team to take control of". It seemed so genuine.

 

[diedpretty]

For a few days I was getting scam parcel delivery messages, sometimes 2 or 3 a day.

Must be so many people getting sucked in with all the on line shopping that is happening and especially with the delays in deliveries at the moment.

Yea I have been getting those as well. I think I read somewhere that if you contact they say that your parcel is delayed due to heavy demand but if you pay a priority fee it will go to the head of the queue.

 

[Cultured_Bogan]

They seem to get the elderly often. Absolute germs of human beings.

 

[bathursttiger1]

people still fall for this?

Yep, one of my good mates is a cop and said every week some one comes in as a victim.

Some lady handed over 20k in a lock box to scammers.

No idea how or why but obviously they're targeting elderly.

My wife is so gullible to all these dodgy txt messages, she comes and asks me what I think.
I try to tell her that banks Government don’t ask you for your details on txt messages still hasn’t sunk in yet.
Luckily she always asked me what to do.