Scams like these

[RB001]

In today's SMH, paywall but heading says it all. Scammers using AI to mimic gov emails "with alarming accuracy" . Spotting scams will get increasingly difficult.

Cybercriminals unleash fake Centrelink scam on vulnerable Australians

More than 270,000 malicious emails impersonating Services Australia and Centrelink have flooded Australian inboxes.

www.smh.com.au

Opens in Incognito mode.

 

[prozac]

Be careful of scammer request addresses.

 

[prozac]

Be careful of scammer request addresses.
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[AustraliaPoochie]

Now, they have picked on (med|care)...
Got one like that.
And hovering over, its, (medicareinfo.u***k)

 

[Flyfrequently]

Who has spare time Mina?

 

[drron]

I'm on a roll. Apart from several dating Ukrainian women and many from MyGov today it is Warren Buffet who wants to send me some money. No doubt he has enough.

 

[Jacques Vert]

I'm on a roll. Apart from several dating Ukrainian women and many from MyGov today it is Warren Buffet who wants to send me some money. No doubt he has enough.

Maybe Warren knows how expensive those Ukrainian women can be!

 

[VPS]

A bit confronting - I thought it might have been a friend I had ignored

 

[Forg]

My wife sent me an email the other day.
About a bunch of links apparently.
And from an email address which was wildly different to anything related to her.

Someone has clearly done some sort of analysis on the names of people who have sent messages to my email address, or some sort of analysis on who she has sent emails to. But not used that information for anything which appears even remotely credible.

 

[Warks]

I got an Paypal invoice for $687.12 for my McAfee subscription. Something I've never owned and I'm not sure even exists any more. Didn't the founder of McAfee tell people to get rid of it years ago before he went on some drug fuelled bender and died in Central America or am I thinking of someone else?

 

[Forg]

I got an Paypal invoice for $687.12 for my McAfee subscription. Something I've never owned and I'm not sure even exists any more. Didn't the founder of McAfee tell people to get rid of it years ago before he went on some drug fuelled bender and died in Central America or am I thinking of someone else?

Did you pay it?

It’s been a year or so since, due to life, I had to answer calls from unknown numbers. A year-ish of not answering unknown numbers seems to have finally taken effect, I had a call (I didn’t answer) from an unknown number yesterday but the scam calls are back down to only 1-2 per week. Got up to nearly 10 per day for a while there!

 

[AuSammy]

Quite strange.

The last couple of weeks of November I received 20-30 emails per week and every single email was from a .UK address and except for 2 were all totally irrelevant to the Australian context (their scammer algorithm if they had one is carp).

Then since the beginning of Dec only one single junk mail entry.

Have they gone on Xmas holidays?

 

[AuSammy]

Did you pay it?

It’s been a year or so since, due to life, I had to answer calls from unknown numbers. A year-ish of not answering unknown numbers seems to have finally taken effect, I had a call (I didn’t answer) from an unknown number yesterday but the scam calls are back down to only 1-2 per week. Got up to nearly 10 per day for a while there!

We never installed a landline at our last two residences as even though our previous one rang up to 5 times a day; none were any genuine calls.

In our latest place we have a lift with a phone (sim card) and aside from the carrier only one person knows the number - me. Not even my partner or the lift company knows the number (I bought the sim, they didn't ask so I didn't tell them the number).

....yet it rings at least a couple times a week. I never answer it.

 

[VPS]

Quite strange.

The last couple of weeks of November I received 20-30 emails per week and every single email was from a .UK address and except for 2 were all totally irrelevant to the Australian context (their scammer algorithm if they had one is carp).

Then since the beginning of Dec only one single junk mail entry.

Have they gone on Xmas holidays?

I've had a lot of UK ones recently too - I think I had 12 yesterday and nothing at all today. I hope they have a very long Christmas break

 

[Forg]

Have they gone on Xmas holidays?

Quite possible! A lot of the scam industry is based in places with a European colonial past, so while the local religion might not warrant a Christmas break the culture does ... having said that, I've spoken to a few scammers with very obvious Filipino accents & Manila is very Catholic.

 

[AuSammy]

I've had a lot of UK ones recently too - I think I had 12 yesterday and nothing at all today. I hope they have a very long Christmas break

I think from other threads that you have been the the UK extensively recently and maybe you have some affinity/link there causing the source.

But confounding TMK I haven't corresponded ever with anyone with a UK email address and last transitted through the UK in 2018.

 

[AuSammy]

Quite possible! A lot of the scam industry is based in places with a European colonial past, so while the local religion might not warrant a Christmas break the culture does ... having said that, I've spoken to a few scammers with very obvious Filipino accents & Manila is very Catholic.

From some of the MSM reports over the last 12-24 months it would seem the Emirates and Myanmar are scamming powerhouses.(along with the Russians)

 

[VPS]

I think from other threads that you have been the the UK extensively recently and maybe you have some affinity/link there causing the source.

But confounding TMK I haven't corresponded ever with anyone with a UK email address and last transitted through the UK in 2018.

I also get a lot of Italian ones too. There was a flurry of UK ones when they had some compensation scheme for car insurance rorts.

I guess I'm just lucky

 

[TheRealTMA]

I got an Paypal invoice for $687.12 for my McAfee subscription. Something I've never owned and I'm not sure even exists any more. Didn't the founder of McAfee tell people to get rid of it years ago before he went on some drug fuelled bender and died in Central America or am I thinking of someone else?

This scam has been around for many years. Totally fake.

 

[VPS]

Another innovative email address from my gov