Scams like these

[moa999]

Department of Transport and Main Roads •
noreply@. baselinker-mail.com

Pay Your Penalty
You have been recorded running a red light.

There is a penalty of AUD 35.99 that must be paid immediately to avoid further action.

Please use the button below to complete your payment:

Pay Now (removed link)
Zrezygnuj z otrzymywania maili

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obviously never looked closely at real Aussie penalties. And no points

 

[JohnK]

Can someone please explain this rubbish taking up half my phone screen? Looks to try and install some rogue version of TikTok which is how I think my daughter had her tablet corrupted and once installed it just plays ads constantly.

I do not want to block pop-ups.

 

[Forg]

TikTok is a rogue version of TikTok that only plays ads all the time!

 

[JohnK]

TikTok is a rogue version of TikTok that only plays ads all the time!

I'm not sure what that means but daughter managed to have 2 copies of TikTok on her tablet.

She would not load TikTok but it would be somehow running in the background as well as DUPCLEAN which I haven't worked how that got on tablet or what it does.

One version of TikTok she could like videos, the other could not.

We'd use Samsung Internet browser and ads start to play non-stop.

Finally deleted rogue TikTok and DupClean and tablet back to normal.

 

[Myrna]

Got a phone call from a number in Ontario, Canada (shown on the phone), said he was from the Commonwealth Bank ?! So I quickly hung up and deleted the number.

 

[VPS]

Got a phone call from a number in Ontario, Canada (shown on the phone), said he was from the Commonwealth Bank ?! So I quickly hung up and deleted the number.

did you not know they have outsourced to the 51st state

 

[Myrna]

did you not know they have outsourced to the 51st state

You are absolutely spot on!

 

[VPS]

Thanks but I'll take the ignore option

 

[VPS]

JB hifi

 

[VPS]

And more mygov - I had a real one from my gov this week and nearly binned it

 

[VPS]

And centrelink

 

[VPS]

Just cleaning out my spam folder - very annoying when you are waiting for something from mygov

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Yep, got that too, mine was from ([email protected]).
Its so easy for people to fall for these, esp those who are not tech savvy.
They are also using AT(0), instead of ATO, which is a clue.
Pity that nothing can be done, even with the funding to the ACCCs Anti Scam thingo/
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Hovering the mouse of the laptop/computer over the sender is the best policy to show who the real sender, or at the least, to go back one link chain up the email from ladder.
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Lots of these authors are from NESB, if you look at the way the emails are written.

 

[VPS]

So now they are coming from Iceland

Hello good friend,

Good day and how are you today? I hope all is well with you and your family? I am using this opportunity to inform you that this multi the million-dollar business that we both are working before has been finally concluded with the assistance of another partner from Iceland who financed the transaction to a logical con funds into your account due to one reason or the other and for my kind gesture. I have left Certified Bank Draft for you worth $3,750.000 USD} ( three Million Seven Hundred Fifty Thousand United States Dollars Only, To show my appreciation for your pass assistance I must confess that you are truly a humble and sincere person.

However, I will gladly appreciate and happier wherever I am to hear that you have received your Certified Bank Draft it will be a great honor to me because you deserve it. and do to my new business establishment with my new partner in Iceland I will be very busy for a very long time kindly contact him now. Rev John Kerubo With the below information to enable him to negotiate with the courier company for the delivery of your Certified Bank Draft to you,

Contact person: Rev John Kerub Email: jk2842211@gmailxx_xx

Therefore you should send him your full Name and telephone number/your correct mailing address where you want him to send the Certified Bank Draft to you. This information is what will enable him to deliver the Certified Bank Draft to you. as I have left instructions on your behalf
Thanks for your pass effort and God bless you and your family.
Hoping to hear from you

Regards,
Mrs. Precious Mpho

Contact person: Rev John Kerubo
Email: jk2842211@gmailxx_xx

 

[Major]

My dear friend, I will like you to contact the finance house for the collection of this international certified bank draft. The name and contact address of the Person with your Check is Mr. Pedro Bradley Fischer, is as follows.


COMPENSATION AND FINANCE HOUSE HEAD OFFICE
CONTACT AGENT: MR. Pedro Bradley Fischer.
Email:xx_xx_ [email protected]


At the moment, I am very busy here because of the investment projects which myself and my new partner are having at hand. Finally, remember that I have forwarded instructions to the finance house on your behalf to send the bank draft to you as soon as you contact them without delay. Please I will like you to accept this token with good faith as this is from the bottom of my heart.


Thanks and God bless you and your family. Hope to hear from you soon.
My sincere advice to you as a Christian is that you should endeavor to pay your tithe to a bible believing church when you get the prize.


Best Regards,
Mrs. Sherry Williams

N:B So sorry for having contacted you for so long. It was due to the fact that I was responding to medical treatment. I went for surgery and ever since I came back I couldn't locate you until I finally made it. That was why I am contacting you back to inform you that I finally made it as a result of this. I had to compensate you with this offer.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Surely we can all tell what the original of the author is from: ahem ahem.
More so, looks like Af rather than In.

 

[DejaBrew]

Nothing suspicious about this one…

 

[Forg]

^ I got that one from Manila last week, too!
Was surprised +63 is Philippines, for some reason, I knew +64 is NZ and +62 is Indonesia so I expected the codes to be in a more geographical order …