Scams like these

[Brissy1]

They don’t have that info for me nor do I recall being asked.

The ability to make payments via the platform is a new’ish feature - which no doubt is their main attraction…

If you've never given them your med history fine (unless your siblings have); but I booked appointment at a new practice just last week (phoned the practice). Soon after I received a text from hotdocs stating I "need" to fill out their form (requiring of course agreeing to their terms of use and their privacy (i.e. disclosure) policy) with extensive questions about my medical history, including whether same questions/conditions applied to parents and siblings. If any questions were not answered you couldn't proceed through the form. So I didn't.

Although if you're concerned about the accuracy of information they hold about you, you can request a copy of the info but (as agreed by ticking the Consent to Terms of Use) they'll charge you an unspecified amount.

 

[SYD]

If you've never given them your med history fine (unless your siblings have); but I booked appointment at a new practice just last week (phoned the practice). Soon after I received a text from hotdocs stating I "need" to fill out their form (requiring of course agreeing to their terms of use and their privacy (i.e. disclosure) policy) with extensive questions about my medical history, including whether same questions/conditions applied to parents and siblings. If any questions were not answered you couldn't proceed through the form. So I didn't.

Although if you're concerned about the accuracy of information they hold about you, you can request a copy of the info but (as agreed by ticking the Consent to Terms of Use) they'll charge you an unspecified amount.

Probably too late but another practice would be the go.

I’ve never done that for my GP. The only other practitioner is the occasional physio.

I’d refuse to do that and wait to do a paper form. Mind you, that probably gets loaded onto an even less secure database…

 

[AuSammy]

When the clinic I was going to introduced hotdocs, I changed clinics. Bonus: $78 per visit (-minus rebate after the fact) became bulk-bill $0.

 

[Brissy1]

Probably too late but another practice would be the go.

I’ve never done that for my GP. The only other practitioner is the occasional physio.

I’d refuse to do that and wait to do a paper form. Mind you, that probably gets loaded onto an even less secure database…

Great doctor, and the practice had no issues with my not agreeing to hotdocs having my medical history. I don't think I was the 1st.
Agee individual dr practice is probably less technically secure, but on a population basis (eg Medibank size) less likely that your personal info will be misused imo.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

AT(0) seems to have so many gmail staff members now, wry, tongue in cheek.
I mean, officially...
Point taken that ATO staff members do have gmail accounts, for leisure, but (I am being taken to the courthouse) by a gmail sender...
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Hotdoc, I used them to get a med cert, to extend from my leg pain early onset athritis, as my normal doc didnt give me a longer time off, but Hotdoc are not the same as escrips are they?
I guess that maybe someone/group has either broken into Hotdoc and set up a copy with the data, or that Hotdoc sold off data.
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Guess tho, if the fake Hotdoc email does not have my name, then its probably generic, and the scammers have just copied the Hotdoc logo, as they did with the ATO and AFP one a while back.
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Anyone had any any new emails with the Chrissy B as sender, now that Reece had resigned.

 

[VPS]

Not sure if they are going to slash my energy bills or slosh them

 

[VPS]

Another my gov

 

[AuSammy]

Interesting reading. Now we need pressure on Dubai and Russia and others

Thousands of foreigners look for way home after 'mass exodus' from scam compounds

Cambodia has witnessed a "mass exodus" from the country's online scam operations in recent weeks amid growing international pressure and the extradition to China of an alleged kingpin.

www.abc.net.au

 

[AuSammy]

This is a new one

 

[ksthommo]

And the winner is Syndey

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

This is a new one

View attachment 495206

Yep.
Reddit also mentioned it

 

[AuSammy]

The IMF must be going thru tough times, don’t have their own domain and using gmail addresses.

Good Day, >>>>>FINANCIAL MONITORY DEPARTMENT/ REF:WB/US/IMF/XXOL8.

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (IMF).
FINANCIAL MONITORY DEPARTMENT/UNIT.
Customers Service Hours / Monday To Sunday
Office Hours Monday to Sunday:
REF:WB/US/IMF/XXOL8


Good Day To You

NOTE: If you received this message in your SPAM/BULK folder, it is because of the restrictions imposed by your Mail/Internet Service Provider, we urge you to treat it genuinely.

This is to intimate you of a very important information which will be of a great help to redeem you from all the difficulties you have been experiencing in getting your long over due payment due to excessive demand for money from you by both corrupt Bank officials and Courier Companies after which your fund remain unpaid to you.

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND (IMF). It may interest you to know that reports have reached our office by so many correspondence on the uneasy way which people like you are treated by Various Banks and Courier Companies across Europe to Africa and Asia and we have decided to put a stop to that and that is why I was appointed to handle your transaction.

All Governmental and Non-Governmental parasites, NGOs, Finance Companies, Banks, Security Companies and Courier companies which have been in contact with You of late have been instructed to back up from your transaction and you have been advised NOT to respond to them anymore since the IMF is now directly in Charge of your payment.

You are hereby advised NOT to remit further payment to any institutions with respect to your transaction as your fund will be transferred to you directly from our source. I hope this is clear. Any action contrary to this instruction is at your own risk.

Respond to this e-mail on ([email protected]) with immediate effect and we shall give you further details on how your fund will be released.

Department Director Name: Mr. Roy Mark

Regards,
DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR.
Mr. Roy Mark

 

[AuSammy]

 

[ayebee]

this is a new one on me.
It looks good, but it refers to a domain I am familiar with, but don't own. I obscured the referenced domain as I do know them. Our email address (also obscured) is a link on their website, so I presume the scammers have scraped it from there.
Behind the hyperllinks is a "sendgrid.net/ xx_xx_xx_" address which is nothing like "micron21".
Interesting the phone numbers are real for Micron21.