Scams like these

[straitman]

hi,


I'm almost done here with my contract i have with me as I am sending this mail 28 kg of Gold Bars (24K). My fear is that this gold cannot be safe in the office camp and I cannot send it to my house with the attempted burglary that happened some time ago as all eyes of my friends and enemies will be at my house i don’t trust any more friends, and this time the gold bars are 3 times bigger about millions worth. Please i want you to help me secure this gold until I’m out from the base.


get back to me.


Sgt. Pet Wood

 

[JessicaTam]

hi,


I'm almost done here with my contract i have with me as I am sending this mail 28 kg of Gold Bars (24K). My fear is that this gold cannot be safe in the office camp and I cannot send it to my house with the attempted burglary that happened some time ago as all eyes of my friends and enemies will be at my house i don’t trust any more friends, and this time the gold bars are 3 times bigger about millions worth. Please i want you to help me secure this gold until I’m out from the base.


get back to me.


Sgt. Pet Wood

Is that why your bags have been delayed so often? They are soooooo heavy with all that gold!

 

[straitman]

Is that why your bags have been delayed so often? They are soooooo heavy with all that gold!

I was wondering when someone would work it out.

 

[Major]

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Hello ! You Have been chosen by NAB online departement to take part in our quick and easy 5 question surveys. In return we will send $75 AUD bonus to your NAB account and will be processing it within 5 working days - Just for your time Helping us better to understand how our customers feel , benefits everyone , With the information collected we can decide to direct a number of changes to improve and expand our online services. As part of our commitment to execellence , we want to make sure we met your needs during our conversation. Would you please take a minute to answer a few questions to let us know how we did ? Claim your rewards - click here Note : For Security reason we will record ( IP Address , Time , an Date ) You will be provided with steps to claim your rewards , The system will validate the information that you entered with our records , If we are unable to validate the information electronically , you may no longer be able to receive this rewards . as the party who controls the data collected in this survey , may use your responses together with existing data it has about you to ensure its products and services meet your needs NAB will treat data collected from you in accordance with NAB privacy policy Considering I don't have a NAB A/c and my spelling is much better I don't think I will click here.

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[QF WP]

My personal email address just got a most interesting proposition:

Abdul-aziz Jammeh <A .com email addresss>

I need your assistance.

I am Abdul-Aziz Jammeh son of former president of Gambia Yahya Jammeh before the elections which my father lost in december 2016 and we went into exile in Equatorial Guinea, after the election was lost i took some sums and deposited in an investment bank in Ghana.

Now the Director in Charge of this deposit in the Bank have contacted me to present them a foreign investment account where they can release the funds because the board of directors are raising questions about the deposit.

I need this funds to be moved out of Ghana immediately. I do not have any idea of any investment to put the money here in Africa, that's why am soliciting your honest assistance so that I can present you to the bank as my family friend to receive the money for me and help invest it for me in your country.

This is very confidential.

You can set up a new bank account incase you do not want to use your existing bank account to receive the money.

I will give you further information and my phone number when i hear from you.


Kind Regards
Abdul-Aziz Jammeh

I'm steering clear of this one, but was tempting

 

[QF WP]

Another one, sounded really tempting, but why would Charles have a Japanese email address when he's in the USA?? Don't think I know him...my good friend

Charles Colocino <his work email address>
Subject: Your Abandoned Package For Delivery

Hello Good Friend

I have very vital information to give to you, but first I must have your trust before I reveal it to you because it may cost me my job, so I need somebody that I can trust for me to be able to reveal the secret to you.

I am Charles J.Colocino JR, head of luggage/baggage storage facilities (Operations, Maintenance, and Transportation) here at the Harrisburg International Airport, Pennsylvania USA. During my recent withheld package routine check at the Airport Storage Vault, I discovered an abandoned shipment from a Diplomat from London and when scanned it revealed an undisclosed sum of money in a Metal Trunk Box weighing approximately 110kg. The consignment was abandoned because the Contents of the consignment was not properly declared by the consignee as "MONEY" rather it was declared as personal effect to avoid interrogation and also the inability of the diplomat to pay for the United States Non Inspection Charges which is $3,700USD. On my assumption the consignment is still left in our Storage House here at the Harrisburg International Airport Pennsylvania till date.

The details of the consignment including your name, your email address and the official documents from the United Nations office in Geneva are tagged on the Trunk box. However, to enable me confirm if you are the actual recipient of this consignment as the assistant director of the Inspection Unit, I will advise you provide your current Phone Number and Full Address, to enable me cross check if it corresponds with the address on the official documents including the name of nearest Airport around your city. Please note that this consignment is supposed to have been returned to the United States Treasury Department as unclaimed delivery due to the delays in concluding the clearance processes so as a result of this, I will not be able to receive your details on my official email account. So in order words to enable me cross check your details, I will advise you send the required details to my private email address for quick processing and response.

Once I confirm you as the actual recipient of the trunk box, I can get everything concluded within 48 hours upon your acceptance and proceed to your address for delivery. Lastly, be informed that the reason I have taken it upon myself to contact you personally about this abandoned consignment is because I want us to transact this business and share the money 70% for you and 30% for me since the consignment has not yet been returned to the United States Treasury Department after being abandoned by the diplomat so immediately the confirmation is made, I will go ahead and pay for the United States Non Inspection Fee of $3,700 dollars and arrange for the box to be delivered to your doorstep Or I can bring it by myself to avoid any more trouble but you have to assure me of my 30% share.

I wait to hear from you urgently if you are still alive and I will appreciate if we can keep this deal confidential. Please get back to me via my private Email (his private gmail address ) for further directives.

Thanks,

Charles J.Colocino JR

Interim Assistance General Manager,
(Operations,Maintenance,Transportation)
Harrisburg International Airport Pennsylvania One Terminal Drive, Middletown.

 

[docjames]

NAB have a report spam line:

spoof AT nab.com.au

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Hello ! You Have been chosen by NAB online departement to take part in our quick and easy 5 question surveys. In return we will send $75 AUD bonus to your NAB account and will be processing it within 5 working days - Just for your time Helping us better to understand how our customers feel , benefits everyone , With the information collected we can decide to direct a number of changes to improve and expand our online services. As part of our commitment to execellence , we want to make sure we met your needs during our conversation. Would you please take a minute to answer a few questions to let us know how we did ? Claim your rewards - click here Note : For Security reason we will record ( IP Address , Time , an Date ) You will be provided with steps to claim your rewards , The system will validate the information that you entered with our records , If we are unable to validate the information electronically , you may no longer be able to receive this rewards . as the party who controls the data collected in this survey , may use your responses together with existing data it has about you to ensure its products and services meet your needs NAB will treat data collected from you in accordance with NAB privacy policy Considering I don't have a NAB A/c and my spelling is much better I don't think I will click here.

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[drron]

Both mrsdrron and I having been out of Australia for 6 weeks have received receipts for online purchases on Jetstar in the last week.I apparently took 2 such flights with purchases.Though funnily not from Jetstar.

 

[get me outta here]

A new one for me from Toyota. Trying to find me about winning a car but interestingly it also lists five of my neighbours by name. I suspect it's a scam because it is the name I use for the interwebz.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Both mrsdrron and I having been out of Australia for 6 weeks have received receipts for online purchases on Jetstar in the last week.I apparently took 2 such flights with purchases.Though funnily not from Jetstar.

I received one of these fake JQ ones from an email address: noreply at alphaflight.com.au with the following subject line "[FONT=&quot]Your on board receipt from JQ4537 - DKYQM - 2017-03-30". They can't even find a legit flight number or think of an extra letter to add to make it a 6 digit pnr. The body of the email has a zip file attached which is a bit of a worry. [/FONT]

 

[QF WP]

Wasn't sure whether this should go here or the Humour thread, here won

 

[Quickstatus]

Got call re ADSL telstra account. Apparently people have hacked into account. Has your netflix been slow?. Have you noticed your ADSL internet slowing down. I said please stay on the phone while "I go to check if Netflix is slow"

put phone down with speaker phone on.
went to watch netflix for 1 hour

Came back to phone - he must have hung up.

 

[JohnK]

Having an interesting time with credit card fraud today.

End of February received an SMS from Westpac with code to complete online transaction. Have never used that card for anything other than balance transfers. Thought nothing of it and I was busy.

A few minutes ago received another 2 SMSes with same authority code to complete online transaction. This was followed up by 5 telephone calls from 02 number that I missed.

Then followed another SMS with different authority code then another phone call from 02 number which I answered. Thought it was Westpac and said those transactions are not mine it appears to be fraud. She then said she knows and could I read out the authority code so she can track it. Yeah right. I hung up. Then another missed call a minute later.

Called Westpac. They don't sound too concerned. Probably someone has put wrong phone number on their profile and I'm getting the SMSes for online banking. Unable to explain why they have followed up with 7 phone calls from 3 different numbers.

 

[JessicaTam]

I got a txt this afternoon:

How did we do?
Please rate your recent nbn connection:
Click: <link>
To unsubscribe send STOP to 0421268776

Except this one has been doing the rounds for a while - 4 Complaints for 0421 268 776 in Australia 0421268776

And I don't have the NBN.

 

[moa999]

Nasty if you had just signed up to NBN.
Wonder if we will see this repeated with more common tasks

 

[prozac]

Having an interesting time with credit card fraud today.

End of February received an SMS from Westpac with code to complete online transaction. Have never used that card for anything other than balance transfers. Thought nothing of it and I was busy.
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Called Westpac. They don't sound too concerned. Probably someone has put wrong phone number on their profile and I'm getting the SMSes for online banking. Unable to explain why they have followed up with 7 phone calls from 3 different numbers.

Westpac are very good with suspect transactions and within minutes of one occurring you should receive a text asking if you made the transaction. You can answer yes or no (or something like that). If you answer no, within another minute or two you will receive a call from Westpac security center. Usually the transaction is an innocuous amount like $1.67. This is a tester. If it goes through then the next one is the biggie. Anyway, the security centre people will cancel your card and issue you a new one within a few days. Very efficient.

 

[JohnK]

Usually the transaction is an innocuous amount like $1.67. This is a tester. If it goes through then the next one is the biggie. Anyway, the security centre people will cancel your card and issue you a new one within a few days. Very efficient.

She was certain there weren't any unauthorised transactions appearing on my card. This makes no sense to me.

 

[OzEire]

End of February received an SMS from Westpac with code to complete online transaction. Have never used that card for anything other than balance transfers.

... phone call from 02 number which I answered. Thought it was Westpac and said those transactions are not mine it appears to be fraud. She then said she knows and could I read out the authority code so she can track it. Yeah right. I hung up. Then another missed call a minute later.

Called Westpac. They don't sound too concerned. Probably someone has put wrong phone number on their profile and I'm getting the SMSes for online banking. Unable to explain why they have followed up with 7 phone calls from 3 different numbers.

My Westpac online only generates an SMS code AFTER an attempt to transfer/statement download, etc is made. This means the person doing it has already successfully logged-in to the online banking portal. SMS (2nd factor) is the final hurdle to initiate the transfer.

The call pretty clearly seems to be an attempt to circumvent that 2nd factor safety net. I am very surprised that Westpac aren't taking this much more seriously and only focusing on the fact that no transfer has YET been successful. Perhaps the front line customer team doesn't get it? Try speaking to the fraud team.

But, despite 2-factor preventing transfers (for now), access to private details, like spending habits, can be a rich source for ID theft. Ive had banks use prior transaction details as an identifer when calling in, thankfully not exclusively.

 

[prozac]

My Westpac online only generates an SMS code AFTER an attempt to transfer/statement download, etc is made. This means the person doing it has already successfully logged-in to the online banking portal. SMS (2nd factor) is the final hurdle to initiate the transfer.

The call pretty clearly seems to be an attempt to circumvent that 2nd factor safety net. I am very surprised that Westpac aren't taking this much more seriously and only focusing on the fact that no transfer has YET been successful. Perhaps the front line customer team doesn't get it? Try speaking to the fraud team.

But, despite 2-factor preventing transfers (for now), access to private details, like spending habits, can be a rich source for ID theft. Ive had banks use prior transaction details as an identifer when calling in, thankfully not exclusively.

I was relating personal experience of someone trying to use a card, in reality probably a generated number that matched with my card. Westpac's system automatically generates the SMS. Once you respond a team member is quick to call you back.

 

[JohnK]

The call pretty clearly seems to be an attempt to circumvent that 2nd factor safety net. I am very surprised that Westpac aren't taking this much more seriously and only focusing on the fact that no transfer has YET been successful. Perhaps the front line customer team doesn't get it? Try speaking to the fraud team.

I'm surprised the frauster has called me. Did they really think I would give them the 8 digit authority code to complete the transaction? That's a sign of arrogance or desperation. Made no attempt to identify themselves.

I don't care about Westpac. I have given them the details including the 3 phone numbers used. Up to them how they use that information.