Scams like these

[VPS]

You can always trust a member of the clergy can't you




Good day to you.

We have made several attempts to reach you regarding your outstanding compensation payment, after our last annual calculation and Internet activities, we have realized that you are eligible to receive a compensation payment of $5,200,000.00 USD.

This compensation payment is Being made to all of you who have suffered loss as a result of Scam, Covid19 or illness Please contact them with your delivery details as stated below.

Full Name:

Address:

Telephone:

Mobile:

Next Of Kin

Fax:

Second Email:

Copy Of Your Id Card:

Send above details to this email address ( [email protected] ) For Your

Compensation payment fund which was arranged in one ATM CARD value at $5,200,000.00 USD so that we can start the delivery without any delay.

Best Regards,

Rev Richard Barton:

 

[Flyfrequently]

Interesting email today from Levi Sluka, Customer Service rep with pdf attachment of receipt of recent purchase (nope) and a Sydney phone number.
Did reverse lookup - nope.
Dialled the number from blocked landline- goes through to USA sounding company MacDonald Merry - nothing listed.

Looked legit at first glance, hovered over email address - nah.

After being exposed through KLM, QF, VN data breaches, have taken to checking credit card transactions every morning.

 

[Scarlett]

These people can't even be bothered using a real ABN or a proper suburb

View attachment 474884

Ha!

15 Main St
SUBURBVILLE VIC 3000

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

They are just learning, for now.
Using proforma forms, and didnt change the city.
Whats next, something from the Vic Parliament House, on spring St, Melbourne Vic 3000...!
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And below, hovering over sender, its from Christina.Lamb.staff@svusd68.(xx_).
So it cant be "accidentally" linked.
Not sure what that website is, or who Christina Lamb is,

 

[Flyfrequently]

Related to Jackson Lamb from "Slow Horses" @AustraliaPoochie

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Turns out svusd is a school in the US!

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

If as we all do, now, browse website, and you go to one, and its "asks you to click prove you are really human" or it wont allow you to bypass the "show notifications", and you dont really need to go to that website, I think I have found out how the Indian "call help centers", do their trick.
Went to a website, thought nothing of the "prove you are human", I did, twice, and show notifications, on twice, and immediately after, the laptop started popping up warnings, about viruses on the laptop, from a .co.in help center, have tried all the deletions, and the pop up keep coming.
Went to flag + i, flag + g, and clicked off notifications, and it no longer appears, but that ble**ding Indian website is still there.
Tried to double click to get rid of it, and it wont go.
So, if you dont really need to go to a certain website, ahem or not, do not tick the box, "prove you are human", and do not allow notifications.
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The Indian websites, piggy back on legit ones, or they might even be a trap, so do not go to any unnecessary websites.

 

[clifford]

Do Not go anywhere near Indian websites.

 

[moa999]

And some of these scam ops have big $s invested in infrastructure.

Europol Dismantles SIM Farm Network Powering 49 Million Fake Accounts Worldwide

Europol’s Operation SIMCARTEL dismantled a SIM farm used for 49M fake accounts and €5M in fraud.

thehackernews.com

 

[JohnK]

Here's one I do not understand.

My 9 year old daughters tablet has Google Play on there with a balance but no authorised backup payment method. We use this for automatic Roblox subscription and upgrades on Toca Boca that require me using password that my daughter does not know.

It would appear that daughter downloaded free trial of Google Artworkout Pro beginning October that will become subscription unless cancelled. No need to provide password.

At some point Google has detected that there is not enough money in Google play balance and has switched on Paypal backup payment method without my permission.

They then take $69.99 for 12 month subscription again without any use of password.

How? I cannot upgrade a $1.99 purchase from Toca Boxa without password yet they take a subscription without authority.

I have cancelled subscription and requested full refund. Lucky I noticed charge on ANZ otherwise this could have gone undetected. Yes thus is partly my fault but there's something seriously wrong if Googke update account settings without permission. Wow!

 

[DejaBrew]

At some point Google has detected that there is not enough money in Google play balance and has switched on Paypal backup payment method without my permission.

Is your daughter's account connected to your / your wife's Google Account via a family plan/account? If so, then something like this might answer your question....

Purchase approvals on Google Play - Android - Google For Families Help

If you're a parent in a family group, you can require family members to get your permission to purchase or download content on Google Play. Purchase approval settings only apply to purchases made thro

support.google.com

 

[JohnK]

Is your daughter's account connected to your / your wife's Google Account via a family plan/account? If so, then something like this might answer your question....

Purchase approvals on Google Play - Android - Google For Families Help

If you're a parent in a family group, you can require family members to get your permission to purchase or download content on Google Play. Purchase approval settings only apply to purchases made thro

support.google.com

No family accounts.

We have $8.99 monthly Roblox subscription and this comes out of Google Play balance. One time we did not have a balance so used my PayPal but switched it off again.

It would appear they warned us free trial was expiring and they were going to charge $69.99 in a week but they realised Google Play balance not enough so they switched on Backup payment method. I have the emails. I did not switch it on.

Daughter cannot purchase anything without verification from me except for expensive subscriptions that do not require verification. Greed at its finest.

 

[DejaBrew]

No family accounts.

We have $8.99 monthly Roblox subscription and this comes out of Google Play balance. One time we did not have a balance so used my PayPal but switched it off again.

It would appear they warned us free trial was expiring and they were going to charge $69.99 in a week but they realised Google Play balance not enough so they switched on Backup payment method. I have the emails. I did not switch it on.

Daughter cannot purchase anything without verification from me except for expensive subscriptions that do not require verification. Greed at its finest.

It sounds dodgy, but I wonder if this is a sneaky little bit of fine print in the T&Cs when signing up to a new subscription product (i.e. you're also agreeing to turn on backup payments to cover the ongoing cost assuming you don't have funds in your Google Play balance)?

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Do Not go anywhere near Indian websites.

I was looking at one of the most benign website, called St Thomas school Kuching Sarawak Malaysia, am from there.
I didnt know, that behind the scenes, the Indian "help centers" must have bought out the website, or did something to it, so it wasnt even an Indian (co.in) website.
I should have inkled when it said, "prove you are human", and "must allow notifications", and had an off feeling about it, though I needed to pass both these to do a bit of reading of the history of the school.
As soon as I clicked the box, prove you are human, and also allow notifications, that was when the warning pops up started.
Pain in the ahem, actually.
Kept popping up, click here to clean/etc.
I know my fiend is still there, but I turned notification off, and no pop up, probably the Indians still do gain.
Guess if an Indian website, or "help center" has bought out a website, ie, like QF selling its flight food service to Dnata, Dnata can do anything they want!
So if a scammy website has bought out a legit website, and then put "prove you are human"/"allow notification", then they have got that person hook line and sinker.

 

[JohnK]

It sounds dodgy, but I wonder if this is a sneaky little bit of fine print in the T&Cs when signing up to a new subscription product (i.e. you're also agreeing to turn on backup payments to cover the ongoing cost assuming you don't have funds in your Google Play balance)?

Very dodgy.

Strictly no refunds but they list some conditions such as family members using account without permission.

I've removed backup method. Hope that is a hard remove not just a flag they can switch on whenever they feel like it without permission.