Scams like these

Does the random aspect apply to the country code as well, or is that part mostly reliable?
While I'm not expert on the topic of configuration of auto-dialling systems, from observation I'd say that they need to set it somehow. Seems pretty common that if you get the same SPAM call in a day, it "comes" from the same country.
In fact it's normally regional too, come to think of it, if the first one "comes from" Queensland the 2nd and 3rd one on the same day are normally "from" Queensland too. But that may be the result of cycling through all possible numbers, too.
 
I think tho, esp for Wangiri, it has to be a real ph #, as they would want you to phone them back, to suck as much ph credits from you, either postpaid or prepaid.
If its the fake AFP one, or ATO one, or Services Aus one, then its probably spoofed, so they aim for you to answer.
 
They must have been busy last night - I empty my spam daily and there were 30 this morning

Several instances of copies of same email spiel but from multiple different fictitious email addresses. So some 50 emails but only about 10 variants
 
Okay this is a first for me.
I mainly book hotels in Japan using JP sites only, never have any issues.
A few mins ago got this from whatsapp (obvious sign it's bs)

Screenshot 2026-09-26 013833.png

The booking details is half correct I guess, dates are right but that confirmation # is nonsense. Not sure where they hacked the info from??
 
Came across this warning:

SCAM WARNING: Evolution MIT Services Pty Ltd is a genuine subsidiary of Evolution Trustees. We are aware that scammers are impersonating the company through the unauthorised website evolutionmitservices.com, unsolicited telephone calls and fabricated contract notes offering investments, including purported shares in private companies. Fraudulent documents may also refer to evolutionmit.com.au. Evolution Trustees and its subsidiaries do not cold call members of the public to offer, recommend or encourage investments. Any unsolicited investment approach claiming to be from Evolution is not authorised by us. End the communication immediately, do not follow any links, and do not disclose personal or financial information or send money. Please report the approach to Scamwatch. This is Evolution Trustees’ official public website.
 
Here's one that's new to me, although maybe others have pointed it out in the 350+ pages of this thread.

Companies set themselves up as intermediaries between legit insurers and customers, paying Google to ensure that when the customer searches for their insurance company to make a claim they're directed to the intermediary.
The claim is then actually passed on to the insurer, so the claim is put in properly as far as the insurer is concerned; except that the intermediary gets the customer to sign a form (or forms) appearing to be legit for the insurer & which mean the intermediary is allowed to do all the paperwork/arranging and charges exorbitant & extortionate fees to do it.

If you have just been run into by someone in a dual-cab ute or an SUV, and you're a bit rattled & you want to start the process of dealing with it, it wouldn't be hard to believe one of the top results in your Google results was real. Especially if you're doing that on a 'phone.

 
I've caught the eye of Kash Patel it seems:

Attn: Beneficiary ,

I am Mr. Kash Patel Director of Federal Bureau of Investigations
(FBI), Series of meetings have been held over the past two weeks with
the secretary general of the United Nations Organization and World
Bank/President Ajay Singh Banga and Tax Department for recovering
unpaid debts, Contract Payments and Inheritance Payment which has been
placed on hold, We come to the conclusion of the meeting yesterday and
your name is listed as one of the victims which have not received
their payment, and it's obvious that you have not received your fund
which is to the tune of $5,000,000.00 Five Million US Dollars due to
past corrupt Government Officials who almost held the funds to
themselves for their selfish reasons and some individuals who have
taken advantage of your fund all in an attempt to swindle your fund
which has led to so many losses from your end and unnecessary delay in
the receipt of your fund.

In the course of our investigation and outcome of the meeting
yesterday, your name is listed among the first individuals yet to be
paid. Instantly you have to comply with this information to avoid
undue delay or paying the fund to the wrong individual/beneficiary, we
have decided to contact you for confirmation. If we fail to hear from
you after 48hours, it will be assumed that you are not willing to
receive your funds and your total payment will be diverted to the
United Nations treasury bill .

Therefore how would you like to receive your funds because we have
different methods of payment which are through Bank to Bank Wire
Transfer / Bank, Cashier Cheque or via ATM Debit Master card. We would
like you to choose one option below.

(A) Bank Transfer/Online Banking transfer
(B) Certified Bank Draft/Cheque
(C) ATM Master Card delivery

You are advised to respond immediately with your choice when you
receive this mail so that your funds will be released to you.

Your urgent response is always required with your full details and
current address because you have a limited time to execute this fund.

Sincerely Yours,
Mr. Kash Patel
Director Federal Bureau of Investigation
United States of America
 
I've caught the eye of Kash Patel it seems:

I got a similar one from the same bloke at the FBI, except he was going to pay me in iTunes cards…

Pretty straightforward, I just had to buy the iTunes cards, and the FBI would refund x2

Still working with local Woolies as apparently US$5M is more than they hold on prem at any given time
 
This one didn't get caught by the spam filter

Hello VPS (note they had my full name as in my email but spelt it incorrectly)

I hope this message finds you well.

We are reaching out from Avera DAO regarding funds that have recently been recovered in connection with your previous trading activities. These funds may have been overlooked following the conclusion of your previous trading activity, and we are contacting you to assist with the withdrawal process.

My name is Katrin Strauss, and I will personally guide you through the process and assist with any questions you may have along the way.

Recovered Funds Information

Recovered Amount: AUD 142,614

Account Reference: 619364211971DY

Next Steps to Withdraw Your Funds

1. Confirm Your Intent

Please reply to this email confirming that you wish to proceed with the withdrawal of the recovered funds.

2. Provide Your Wallet Details

Once your withdrawal has been confirmed, please provide the Ethereum wallet address associated with your Trust Wallet so that we can arrange the transfer.

For your security, please do not send your wallet password, private key, recovery phrase, or seed phrase. We only require the public Ethereum wallet address necessary to process the transfer.

If you require assistance at any stage, please contact our support team:

[email protected]

A supposed safelink inserted here (Yeah nup)

Thank you for your cooperation. We look forward to assisting you with the successful withdrawal of your recovered funds.

Warm regards,

Katrin Strauss

Client Support Specialist

Avera DAO Support Team

Disclaimer

This email, including any attachments, is confidential and intended solely for the recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and delete this message.



Avera DAO LTD will never ask you to provide your account password, private keys, seed phrases, or other sensitive login credentials via email.
 
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Naughty boy :) Anyone wanna see my videos?
-------------

Hi there!

I regret to inform you about some sad news for you.
Approximately a month or two ago I have succeeded to gain a total access to all your devices utilized for browsing internet.
Moving forward, I have started observing your internet activities on continuous basis.
Go ahead and take a look at the sequence of events provided below for your reference:
Initially I bought an exclusive access from hackers to a long list of email accounts (in today's world, that is really a common thing, which can arranged via internet).

Evidently, it wasn't hard for me to proceed with logging in your email account ([email protected]).

Within the same week, I moved on with installing a Trojan virus in Operating Systems for all devices that you use to login to email.

Frankly speaking, it wasn't a challenging task for me at all (since you were kind enough to click some of the links in your inbox emails before).

Yeah, geniuses are among us.

Because of this Trojan I am able to gain access to entire set of controllers in devices (e.g., your video camera, keyboard, microphone and others).

As result, I effortlessly downloaded all data, as well as photos, web browsing history and other types of data to my servers.

Moreover, I have access to all social networks accounts that you regularly use, including emails, including chat history, messengers, contacts list etc.

My unique virus is incessantly refreshing its signatures (due to control by a driver), and hence remains undetected by any type of antiviruses.
Hence, I guess by now you can already see the reason why I always remained undetected until this very letter...

During the process of compilation of all the materials associated with you, I also noticed that you are a huge supporter and regular user of websites hosting nasty adult content.

Turns out to be, you really love visiting cough websites, as well as watching exciting videos and enduring unforgettable pleasures.

As a matter of fact, I was not able to withstand the temptation, but to record certain nasty solo action with you in main role, and later produced a few videos exposing your masturbation and coughming scenes.

If until now you don't believe me, all I need is one-two mouse clicks to make all those videos with everyone you know, including your friends, colleagues, relatives and others.

Moreover, I am able to upload all that video content online for everyone to see.

I sincerely think, you certainly would not wish such incidents to take place, in view of the lustful things demonstrated in your commonly watched videos, (you absolutely know what I mean by that) it will cause a huge adversity for you.

There is still a solution to this matter, and here is what you need to do:

You make a transaction of $1490 USD to my account (an equivalent in bitcoins, which recorded depending on the exchange rate at the date of funds transfer), hence upon receiving the transfer, I will immediately get rid of all those lustful videos without delay.

After that we can make it look like there was nothing happening beforehand.

Additionally, I can confirm that all the Trojan software is going to be disabled and erased from all devices that you use. You have nothing to worry about, because I keep my word at all times.

That is indeed a beneficial bargain that comes with a relatively reduced price, taking into consideration that your profile and traffic were under close monitoring during a long time frame.

If you are still unclear regarding how to buy and perform transactions with bitcoins - everything is available online.

Below is my bitcoin wallet for your further reference: b...................

All you have is 48 hours and the countdown begins once this email is opened (in other words 2 days).

The following list includes things you should remember and avoid doing:

> There's no point to try replying my email (since this email and return address were created inside your inbox).

> There's no point in calling police or any other types of security services either. Furthermore, don't you dare sharing this info with any of your friends.

If I discover that (taking into consideration my skills, it will be really simple, because I control all your systems and continuously monitor them) - your nasty clip will be shared with public straight away.

> There's no point in looking for me too - it won't result in any success. Transactions with cryptocurrency are completely anonymous and untraceable.

> There's no point in reinstalling your OS on devices or trying to throw

> them away. That won't solve the issue,

since all clips with you as main character are already uploaded on remote servers.

Things that may be concerning you:

> That funds transfer won't be delivered to me.

Breathe out, I can track down everything right away, so once funds transfer is finished, I will know for sure, since I interminably track down all activities done by you (my Trojan virus controls all processes remotely, just as TeamViewer).

> That your videos will be distributed, even though you have completed money transfer to my wallet.

Trust me, it is worthless for me to still bother you after money transfer is successful. Moreover, if that was ever part of my plan, I would do make it happen way earlier!

We are going to approach and deal with it in a clear manner!

In conclusion, I'd like to recommend one more thing... after this you need to make certain you don't get involved in similar kind of unpleasant events anymore!

My recommendation - ensure all your passwords are replaced with new ones on a regular basis.
 
Naughty boy :) Anyone wanna see my videos?
-------------

Hi there!

I regret to inform you about some sad news for you.
Approximately a month or two ago I have succeeded to gain a total access to all your devices utilized for browsing internet.
Moving forward, I have started observing your internet activities on continuous basis.
Go ahead and take a look at the sequence of events provided below for your reference:
Initially I bought an exclusive access from hackers to a long list of email accounts (in today's world, that is really a common thing, which can arranged via internet).

Evidently, it wasn't hard for me to proceed with logging in your email account ([email protected]).

Within the same week, I moved on with installing a Trojan virus in Operating Systems for all devices that you use to login to email.

Frankly speaking, it wasn't a challenging task for me at all (since you were kind enough to click some of the links in your inbox emails before).

Yeah, geniuses are among us.

Because of this Trojan I am able to gain access to entire set of controllers in devices (e.g., your video camera, keyboard, microphone and others).

As result, I effortlessly downloaded all data, as well as photos, web browsing history and other types of data to my servers.

Moreover, I have access to all social networks accounts that you regularly use, including emails, including chat history, messengers, contacts list etc.

My unique virus is incessantly refreshing its signatures (due to control by a driver), and hence remains undetected by any type of antiviruses.
Hence, I guess by now you can already see the reason why I always remained undetected until this very letter...

During the process of compilation of all the materials associated with you, I also noticed that you are a huge supporter and regular user of websites hosting nasty adult content.

Turns out to be, you really love visiting cough websites, as well as watching exciting videos and enduring unforgettable pleasures.

As a matter of fact, I was not able to withstand the temptation, but to record certain nasty solo action with you in main role, and later produced a few videos exposing your masturbation and coughming scenes.

If until now you don't believe me, all I need is one-two mouse clicks to make all those videos with everyone you know, including your friends, colleagues, relatives and others.

Moreover, I am able to upload all that video content online for everyone to see.

I sincerely think, you certainly would not wish such incidents to take place, in view of the lustful things demonstrated in your commonly watched videos, (you absolutely know what I mean by that) it will cause a huge adversity for you.

There is still a solution to this matter, and here is what you need to do:

You make a transaction of $1490 USD to my account (an equivalent in bitcoins, which recorded depending on the exchange rate at the date of funds transfer), hence upon receiving the transfer, I will immediately get rid of all those lustful videos without delay.

After that we can make it look like there was nothing happening beforehand.

Additionally, I can confirm that all the Trojan software is going to be disabled and erased from all devices that you use. You have nothing to worry about, because I keep my word at all times.

That is indeed a beneficial bargain that comes with a relatively reduced price, taking into consideration that your profile and traffic were under close monitoring during a long time frame.

If you are still unclear regarding how to buy and perform transactions with bitcoins - everything is available online.

Below is my bitcoin wallet for your further reference: b...................

All you have is 48 hours and the countdown begins once this email is opened (in other words 2 days).

The following list includes things you should remember and avoid doing:

> There's no point to try replying my email (since this email and return address were created inside your inbox).

> There's no point in calling police or any other types of security services either. Furthermore, don't you dare sharing this info with any of your friends.

If I discover that (taking into consideration my skills, it will be really simple, because I control all your systems and continuously monitor them) - your nasty clip will be shared with public straight away.

> There's no point in looking for me too - it won't result in any success. Transactions with cryptocurrency are completely anonymous and untraceable.

> There's no point in reinstalling your OS on devices or trying to throw

> them away. That won't solve the issue,

since all clips with you as main character are already uploaded on remote servers.

Things that may be concerning you:

> That funds transfer won't be delivered to me.

Breathe out, I can track down everything right away, so once funds transfer is finished, I will know for sure, since I interminably track down all activities done by you (my Trojan virus controls all processes remotely, just as TeamViewer).

> That your videos will be distributed, even though you have completed money transfer to my wallet.

Trust me, it is worthless for me to still bother you after money transfer is successful. Moreover, if that was ever part of my plan, I would do make it happen way earlier!

We are going to approach and deal with it in a clear manner!

In conclusion, I'd like to recommend one more thing... after this you need to make certain you don't get involved in similar kind of unpleasant events anymore!

My recommendation - ensure all your passwords are replaced with new ones on a regular basis.

But with absolute control of your computer, draining your bank accounts never occurred to this bloke?

"Yeah, geniuses are among us"... who's the genius now?
 
Account: webadmin@[redacted]com.au

Dear Customer,

This is a prompt reminder that you currently hold 8,697 Qantas Points scheduled to expire in 2 days.

Please ensure you make the most of your rewards. You can easily redeem your points online before validity lapses.

[Check my points link to: qantas{dot}borkjc{dot}......]

perhaps a good way to have my real Qantas points go wandering?
Fred
In a very similar vein, four SMS messages ...


+905438xx_X41
This message is from an unsaved number. Beware of smishing and phishing
Block number​

Wednesday 30 September​

Qantas Frequent Flyer: Your 15,700 Award Points Expire
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https:/gantasab0nusu.cxd/avvard?fcs=YAZZZT
Redeem your points for a gift.
Thank you for being a valuec Qantas Frequent Flyer
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