Scams like these

[wandering_fred]

email from "poppy at qantas client services"

We observed an unexpected login attempt on your user ID.

Information of the attempt:
Date & Time: 5 September 2025, 03:56
Service: Qantas Frequent Flyer
Place: Melbourne, Australia
Device / Operating System: Laptop / Windows 11
Client: Brave

If this activity wasn’t yours, or if you suspect a third party may have used your program account, please inform us immediately.

Needless to comment that the link to " this was not me" went to a location
I would not care to be found wandering

Fred

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

email from "poppy at qantas client services"

We observed an unexpected login attempt on your user ID.

Information of the attempt:
Date & Time: 5 September 2025, 03:56
Service: Qantas Frequent Flyer
Place: Melbourne, Australia
Device / Operating System: Laptop / Windows 11
Client: Brave

If this activity wasn’t yours, or if you suspect a third party may have used your program account, please inform us immediately.

Needless to comment that the link to " this was not me" went to a location
I would not care to be found wandering

Fred

Hmm, this one is hard.
To believe or not to believe, the sender is kosher/has scruples/is the real deal.
Did you hover over the sender of/in the email?

 

[wandering_fred]

Hmm, this one is hard.
To believe or not to believe, the sender is kosher/has scruples/is the real deal.
Did you hover over the sender of/in the email?

Poppy at Qantas:Client Services <utocerur131 AT gmail.com>

More than enough to restrict my wandering
Fred

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

I see.
Then there is "private number", or "number witheld" or "splash"...

 

[DejaBrew]

This is apparently not a new thing, but it's new for me seeing it pop up on my phone (a few mins ago) as part of an incoming phone call from an unknown mobile number -:

Suspicious phone calls: what Telstra is doing to raise the alarm

42% of Australians who own a mobile device admit to being less likely to answer calls out of concern about being scammed. We want to change that.

www.telstra.com.au

 

[Mr_Tee]

This is apparently not a new thing, but it's new for me seeing it pop up on my phone (a few mins ago) as part of an incoming phone call from an unknown mobile number -:

Suspicious phone calls: what Telstra is doing to raise the alarm

42% of Australians who own a mobile device admit to being less likely to answer calls out of concern about being scammed. We want to change that.

www.telstra.com.au

I’ve only just started seeing this on my phone in the past couple of weeks. It’s quite good I think.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Had a recording, it only recorded part of the recorded tape of the voice, "transaction for rail trip from Sydney Central Station to Perth East Railway Station for $17xx" if this was not you, press 1, this was on home phone, and only recorded as I mentioned part way through.
Family member thought they had something from the "security department of your bank" or something similar.
Not to mention the Wangiri calls from our cousins on the other side of the pond, +64 xx_ xx_x, (((thought that they would not play their tricks on the nearest cousins across the way...))).

 

[VPS]

Got a spam email with about 200 emails clearly visible. Not sure where they got them from but one of the was a SA government one and that format is at least 15 years old and probably more.

This dingbat then decides to reply to the spam email and cc everyone in

 

[TheRealTMA]

Got a spam email with about 200 emails clearly visible. Not sure where they got them from but one of the was a SA government one and that format is at least 15 years old and probably more.

This dingbat then decides to reply to the spam email and cc everyone in

View attachment 468918

Dingbats who do reply all to form/spam emails should be banned from from using emails for at least a month.

 

[VPS]

Dingbats who do reply all to form/spam emails should be banned from from using emails for at least a month.

Yep we had dozens of them at work when an email went out accidentally to about 3,000 people and the number of replies who cc all and said please remove me from this mailing list and then the dingbats that said just ignore it and don't cc everyone (which of course they did)

 

[prozac]

Yep we had dozens of them at work when an email went out accidentally to about 3,000 people and the number of replies who cc all and said please remove me from this mailing list and then the dingbats that said just ignore it and don't cc everyone (which of course they did)

I see dumb people ...

 

[VPS]

I see dumb people ...

There was a guy wearing this T shirt in my shopping centre the other day and I concur

 

[JohnK]

I really love Latitude. Their contact centre is down.

I just noticed 2 x $100 charges from Apple store for 10 September. Im trying really hard to remember what I purchased but Im drawing blanks. I can't even dispute transaction as Their server is down?

This is what makes me really angry. They send me a request for authorisation of a $6.95 charge at McDonalds but just let 2 fraudulent transactions through.

How does this continue to occur? This card was replaced not long ago and compromised again. Mainly used for booking internal Thailand flights.

Sigh....

 

[SYD]

I really love Latitude. Their contact centre is down.

I just noticed 2 x $100 charges from Apple store for 10 September. Im trying really hard to remember what I purchased but Im drawing blanks. I can't even dispute transaction as Their server is down?

This is what makes me really angry. They send me a request for authorisation of a $6.95 charge at McDonalds but just let 2 fraudulent transactions through.

How does this continue to occur? This card was replaced not long ago and compromised again. Mainly used for booking internal Thailand flights.

Sigh....

Put a temporary hold on the card via the app until you resolve it.

Did you get the alerts on your phone when the card was used?

 

[JohnK]

Put a temporary hold on the card via the app until you resolve it.

Did you get the alerts on your phone when the card was used?

No alert which gets me thinking inside job. Card has very small available limit so they cannot scam too much.

 

[Forg]

I really love Latitude. Their contact centre is down.

I just noticed 2 x $100 charges from Apple store for 10 September. Im trying really hard to remember what I purchased but Im drawing blanks. I can't even dispute transaction as Their server is down?

This is what makes me really angry. They send me a request for authorisation of a $6.95 charge at McDonalds but just let 2 fraudulent transactions through.

While I (obviously!) don't know in this case, my guess would be that it's a spending-pattern thing.
According to their data, you're considered likely to buy stuff from the Apple store, and highly unlikely to be buying recycled pickle-juice hamburgers (or for $6.95 these days, three soggy shoestring fries).
The latter means they think highly of you, dunno about the former ...

How does this continue to occur?
...
Mainly used for booking internal Thailand flights.

I suspect you've answered your own question there!

 

[JohnK]

I suspect you've answered your own question there!

Possibly but my question is why me? There are lots of AFF-ers that visit Thailand often and very few reports of any issues.

When I called Latitude earlier this card was issued 9/9/24 due to fraudulent transactions and just on 1 year later the same thing occurs.

 

[DejaBrew]

When I called Latitude earlier this card was issued 9/9/24 due to fraudulent transactions and just on 1 year later the same thing occurs.

Well... we are talking about Latitude here. They do have a reputation and were subject to a massive breach back in 2023....

 

[Forg]

Possibly but my question is why me? There are lots of AFF-ers that visit Thailand often and very few reports of any issues.

Maybe they’re not reporting it ‘cos it’s expected?
Not Thailand specifically, just anywhere outside the First World.