Scams like these

Cruiser Elite said:
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You can see above the "blue links" displayed but the real link is behind. To see it you need to put over it a cursor and select "copy to clipboard". If you paste (but not in the browser) you will see the hidden address that sender want you to use. That how they fool you if you click on the blue links shown above pretending to be real, but the hidden is their fake...😲🫢🫣
 
straitman said:
I constantly get that one. I haven't even been in Oz for the past 5 weeks but they constantly want me to pay tolls. Go figure?
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So you're saying it coud be a scam scam, or a legitimate scam ... Linkt "legally" trying to make you pay for roads you didn't actually use ... :)
 
straitman said:
I constantly get that one. I haven't even been in Oz for the past 5 weeks but they constantly want me to pay tolls. Go figure?
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They are counting on a probability. With big numbers targeted 🎯 there is always potential replying, ...and that will be their success particularly with improving sophistication ⁉️
Unfortunately, some will fall into their traps ...

So there will be more and more and more sophisticated scamming traps...
🤔😲🫢
 
latawiec said:
If you still have this email, you can check that the blue link displayed has hidden different fake link.

Put cursor on the blue link and "copy to clipboard", and next paste somewhere. It will be different fake link that will be used if you click on the "blue link". That how they try to fool you ...
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I just took a screenshot and deleted. I am familiar with checking links, but as this was on my phone I didn't bother trying.
 
Forg said:
How do you do this on a ‘phone when viewing an SMS?
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Personally I didn't experience such event with SMS... to be able to check what is behind suspected links...

What I have written is referred to emails:

"If you still have this email, you can check that the blue link displayed has hidden different fake link".

Maybe somebody has such knowledge ❓

However, if there is suspicious SMS, it is better not to use such provided link, but to use formal contacts.

Remember, that most institutions including banks may ask you to contact them but newer asking you to use links or phone numbers in their email or SMS.
Only scammers ask to use provided fake links to milk you...
 
OATEK said:
I just took a screenshot and deleted. I am familiar with checking links, but as this was on my phone I didn't bother trying.
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Good.

I am quite often checking because I would like to know from which country are originated these scams... 🤔😊
 
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I’m keen to hear members’ thought re this. I bought an item via Facebook Marketplace (for just the second time) and the person said they would post it pre Xmas. They appeared to be in Melbourne but it was a bit too far away to collect it near Xmas. I paid via PayID mainly because it tells me the person’s name and their mobile number, which matched their FB profile. Nothing turned up so I texted them using the mobile number they gave me for their PayID. They apologised but mentioned they now had a second item which they could also sell me. Slightly better, slightly dearer. I sort of needed a second one so agreed a price and paid via PayID again. Now nothing has arrived and texts just go unanswered and phone calls just go to messagebank. Messages sent via FB Messenger now just fail to send. I can normally spot a scam pretty easily but I just have an uneasy feeling here. We aren’t talking much money ($140), but it is just annoying and disappointment there are this type of person out there. Maybe that is how people work, doing lots of little scams assuming everyone will just shrug and move on. Reckon I’ve been done? Any thoughts as to what I could to do? I don’t want to make life difficult for myself by ringing their workplace or similar, which I can see on FB. I may then find my car vandalised (they have my name and address and phone number for the alleged delivery coming) and they may just deny ever dealing with me anyway. The FB profile may be fake but they have hundreds of friends there so I doubt it. PayID said the bank account name matched exactly, so if it is all fake it is getting very elaborate. All a touch annoying really and hardly the Christmas spirit. I’m keen to hear any ideas or suggestions. Thanks for reading this far too.
 
Lat34 said:
On a smartphone press and *hold* on the link to bring up the context menu, select copy link then paste into eg the Notes app on your phone.

Practice on an SMS link you trust
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Well, if it works in this way on SMS for the blue links that it is not different to email ...🤔

I didn't experience such SMS, but many phone calls and many emails.
 
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Nemeca said:
I’m keen to hear members’ thought re this. I bought an item via Facebook Marketplace (for just the second time) and the person said they would post it pre Xmas. They appeared to be in Melbourne but it was a bit too far away to collect it near Xmas. I paid via PayID mainly because it tells me the person’s name and their mobile number, which matched their FB profile. Nothing turned up so I texted them using the mobile number they gave me for their PayID. They apologised but mentioned they now had a second item which they could also sell me. Slightly better, slightly dearer. I sort of needed a second one so agreed a price and paid via PayID again. Now nothing has arrived and texts just go unanswered and phone calls just go to messagebank. Messages sent via FB Messenger now just fail to send. I can normally spot a scam pretty easily but I just have an uneasy feeling here. We aren’t talking much money ($140), but it is just annoying and disappointment there are this type of person out there. Maybe that is how people work, doing lots of little scams assuming everyone will just shrug and move on. Reckon I’ve been done? Any thoughts as to what I could to do? I don’t want to make life difficult for myself by ringing their workplace or similar, which I can see on FB. I may then find my car vandalised (they have my name and address and phone number for the alleged delivery coming) and they may just deny ever dealing with me anyway. The FB profile may be fake but they have hundreds of friends there so I doubt it. PayID said the bank account name matched exactly, so if it is all fake it is getting very elaborate. All a touch annoying really and hardly the Christmas spirit. I’m keen to hear any ideas or suggestions. Thanks for reading this far too.
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Well, you feel scared.

I understand this as couple of years ago I had SMS for a payment what wasn't mine. When I ignored next were threatening phone, telling me and telling that they know everything about me, address, car etc... and threatening me with dogs... I reported it to police. Police indicated that there are such SCAMS likely from abroad and that they monitor them.

On next call they tell me that I am putting my wife and children at risk‼️
At this time I told them cough*off because police already monitor them.
And I feel secure, because .....we do not have children. 😂🤣🤣

Suggest reporting...🤔
 
Most likely it is a scam.
My relation of a case: long one, have mentioned it on here.
My parents needed an oven for their rental property, saw something called Liam Market, looked ok.
Went to the website, picked the $313.87, matched the size needed, it said to pay by bank transfer to the name, and bsb and account # by osko, which I did.
Nothing came, they were to courier the oven, thinking about it now, courier from Mel to Adl for free, streuth, its a scam.
Contacted the company, the person had the gall to say, "there was a problem, the person you paid was the accountant, she did a bunk, ie runner, and the police got her" but I did not know which state.
Liam Market has an "office" in Mel.
The muppet wanted me to pay another person, for the same amount again.
I hesitated.
He/she has the gall to then offer me the job of being their "accountant", putting sales through my bank account, and then putting the 90% into crypto, and keeping the rest, ie 10%.
Who in their right mind would want to offer some pooch like me such a job, I think its most likely money laundering.
My mup went to SAPOL, who said they have never seen anything like this.
We went to her bank, they couldn't get the money back.
Not like your case, Latawiec, but as you can see from my "case" there are crooks and shonks out there, with no scruples.
Not only do we have to contend with the African and Indian scammers, there are also now local hoodwinkers.
Not to mention too the Chinese guy who got nabbed, sending millions of spam sms from his machine in Sydney few days ago.
Maybe not what you want to hear, but maybe just block and delete the seller, in case they use your info for other things, have to also watch out for the next steps, whether they be someone using your details to set up other scams.
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As part of the job application, they also wanted my id!
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Press and hold on the link, isn't that what they want us to do?
 
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p--and--t said:
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I haven't ordered too much online lately, however I did order and get two deliveries via Aus Post succesfully in the last 2 weeks. Coincidentally on the eve of both successful deliveries, out of the blue, I got text messages similar to the above about an incorrect postcode preventing delivery of my parcel. If I was a suspicious person I might start to wonder about the timing of these co-incidences, data hackers? someone in the supply chain feeding data out?
 

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