Scams like these

[OZDUCK]

Looks impressive!

Ref/ ASD Court 0625 Order

2025-06-10 21:19

AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE <[email protected]>

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To Whom It May Concern,

This Office requires that you respond to the enclosed summons without delay.

Failure to respond within 24 hours will result in legal action.

Sincerely,

Dr. Sarah Benson
Chief Forensic Scientist (CFS)
Australian Federal Police (AFP)





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I wished I could have issued Letters of Demand, Infringement Notices etc "To Whom It May Concern" back in my Customs life. It would have all been so much easier.

 

[VPS]

Looks impressive!

Ref/ ASD Court 0625 Order

2025-06-10 21:19

AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE <[email protected]>

[​

To Whom It May Concern,

This Office requires that you respond to the enclosed summons without delay.

Failure to respond within 24 hours will result in legal action.

Sincerely,

Dr. Sarah Benson
Chief Forensic Scientist (CFS)
Australian Federal Police (AFP)





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just checking that you are OK and haven't been arrested

 

[TheRealTMA]

just checking that you are OK and haven't been arrested

You don't think they have been monitoring my grooming of RooFlyer do you?

 

[VPS]

You don't think they have been monitoring my grooming of RooFlyer do you?

It did cross my mind

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Very high standard of English, tho, I must admit.
Stamps and all.
High effort.

 

[ayebee]

This is almost nostalgic coming from "Nigeria".
Love the last para "if you are sure of YOUR integrity..." maybe it should MY integrity. Yeah Nah.

 

[prozac]

Last week MrsP received a scam identified call every day around the same time. She let it go through to the keeper. On Wednesday I picked up the phone and gave the 2 second timed silence before answering. Still there, a voice informed me she was from Commonwealth Bank. I started I would track her down and calmly ended with ripping out a heart and feeding it to dogs. Terrible I would say such things but we haven't had a call since and she might have even left the business. Yes, it takes a certain mindset to do this with menace. My phone, my rules.
I hope she wasn't really from Combank.

 

[clifford]

Last week MrsP received a scam identified call every day around the same time. She let it go through to the keeper. On Wednesday I picked up the phone and gave the 2 second timed silence before answering. Still there, a voice informed me she was from Commonwealth Bank. I started I would track her down and calmly ended with ripping out a heart and feeding it to dogs. Terrible I would say such things but we haven't had a call since and she might have even left the business. Yes, it takes a certain mindset to do this with menace. My phone, my rules.
I hope she wasn't really from Combank.

That's very interesting. Last week I received a text from the St George bank (where I do have an account) querying whether I had made a transaction at bookshop in Vienna (I hadn't). The text asked me to respond if I didn't recognise the transaction.

I was a little suspicious but decided to respond to the text. A few minutes later I received a call from someone with a Philippines accent stating they were from St George. I was still suspicious at this stage but let her continue for the time being. She was able to convince me that this was legit call, and with my agreement, cancelled the rogue transaction and my credit card and arranged for a replacement card to be issued.

I'm very glad I didn't just treat this as a likely scam and ignore it. In fact, I was very impressed with the St George service.

 

[Forg]

^ I’ve had those calls, as soon as they ask me for ID related info (as that’s always private) I tell them thanks very much and I’ll call back straight away. They always know why when it’s legit, and never have a problem with me doing that unless it’s a scam call.

 

[Dmac59]

That's very interesting. Last week I received a text from the St George bank (where I do have an account) querying whether I had made a transaction at bookshop in Vienna (I hadn't). The text asked me to respond if I didn't recognise the transaction.

I was a little suspicious but decided to respond to the text. A few minutes later I received a call from someone with a Philippines accent stating they were from St George. I was still suspicious at this stage but let her continue for the time being. She was able to convince me that this was legit call, and with my agreement, cancelled the rogue transaction and my credit card and arranged for a replacement card to be issued.

I'm very glad I didn't just treat this as a likely scam and ignore it. In fact, I was very impressed with the St George service.

Still sounds a little suspicious IMO @clifford
Upon receiving that telephone call in response to your reply-text, as a safeguard I would've terminated that call and immediatley made my own call to the St George Bank call centre.
I hope it has worked out for you.

 

[VPS]

They sent this twice so must be true and Lottery winner who gave away half of £115m fortune 'addicted' to helping

From: BRUNA DA SILVA SANTIAGO LEITE < >
Sent: Friday, 13 June 2025 01:47
To: BRUNA DA SILVA SANTIAGO LEITE < >
Subject: Grant Donation for your community.

You have been selected to receive a €2,500,000 donation from Frances and Patrick Connolly as part of their charitable initiative. Please reply to this email to receive further instructions.

This is our second attempt to contact you.

This is 100% Genuine.

The donation is intended to support you, your family, and your community.

Regards

Frances & Patrick Connolly

 

[Flyfrequently]

They sent this twice so must be true and Lottery winner who gave away half of £115m fortune 'addicted'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-61241436

Please reply to this email to receive further instructions.

This is our second attempt to contact you.

This is 100% Genuine.

Sent twice and 100% genuine @VPS

 

[VPS]

Lottery winner who gave away half of £115m fortune 'addicted' to helping

Sent twice and 100% genuine @VPS

OK I'll reply then and let you know how I get on

 

[jenib]

A couple of years ago I was a victim of a spam bombing - the scammer uses your credit card to purchase something expensive (in my case 12 premium tickets to Ferrari World Abu Dhabi) and at the same time has hundreds of spam emails sent to you, signing you up to all sorts of mailing lists etc in an attempt to divert attention from the purchase. The purchase in my case was through Viator and because I happened to have their app on my phone it immediately notified me of 'my booking'. I was determined not to let them get away with it so I advised credit card company, viator, AND the attraction owner and the tickets were cancelled (they were for later the same day). I sort of pity the person who purchased the tickets from the scammer because they would have turned up and not been allowed in but it is all on them because they probably paid a cheaper price not buying through official channels.

Got my money back but hadn't previously realised that if you suddenly get lots and lots of spam/scam messages you need to double check that there isn't a real transaction in there somewhere!

 

[Happy Dude]

I got one of those "Aus Post we can't deliver your package because the post code is incorrect" texts the other day.

I responded with "Well you're the Post Office and you invented the post codes so you look up the correct one". Still waiting for a response.

 

[Forg]

I got one of those "Aus Post we can't deliver your package because the post code is incorrect" texts the other day.

I responded with "Well you're the Post Office and you invented the post codes so you look up the correct one". Still waiting for a response.

Problem is … that message was potentially sent to a bunch of random numbers, many of which aren’t anyone’s ‘phone number … and by replying you’ve confirmed that your number is real.

 

[ayebee]

This one was quite interesting. A security check on a login. PCloud is a legitimate cloud storage solution, and this email looked reasonable. Hovering on the account (my email blanked) looked OK, but the "security settings" link was a "tiny url" which should raise suspicions.
Some might not be aware of their typical IP address. Mine is in form149.x.x.x so something starting in 85. looks odd. As it happens it is in UK and probably some random number on virgin UK.

 

[Dmac59]

This one was quite interesting. A security check on a login. PCloud is a legitimate cloud storage solution, and this email looked reasonable. Hovering on the account (my email blanked) looked OK, but the "security settings" link was a "tiny url" which should raise suspicions.
Some might not be aware of their typical IP address. Mine is in form149.x.x.x so something starting in 85. looks odd. As it happens it is in UK and probably some random number on virgin UK.

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Two alarm bells for me @ayebee
Domain country of sender is in Japan, yet pCloud is based in Switzerland AFAIK
Poor grammar - 'Please resetting your access .........'