Scams like these

[clifford]

But, unfortunately, they do pick a few right people with this scatter gun approach.

 

[drron]

A few years go I got one of those from a supposed copper in London. It was my sister supposedly i trouble. There are occasions when I excel myself in the quick thinking department.
I replied immediately - wonderful I am with my sister at the moment. her son is an Inspector working at Scotland Yard and we are just on the way to see him abut this very matter. Never heard from him again.

 

[AuSammy]

Oldie but a not so goodie…

I mean how more obvious that it is utter BS when the message says coming from a +63 number and he/she says they texting from 04……..

This scam is as old as methuselah, surely no-one falls for that any more - oh wait

 

[Q Class Plebeian]

Yes, I've had exactly the same experience.

Where in Europe did you go?

Arrived back at Easter

 

[VPS]

Another kind offer

 

[wandering_fred]

Shipment is on hold
To ensure a smooth and timely delivery of your shipment, we kindly ask you to confirm the delivery details currently on file. This includes checking the accuracy of your delivery address and confirming the applicable delivery fees.

Your prompt response will help us avoid delays or the shipment being returned to the sender.

confirm now link
Thanks,
The Australia Post team

This email was sent by Australia Post, 480 Swan Street, RICHMOND VIC 3121. You're receiving this email because you're an Australia Post customer. This is a service communication. If you have any concerns, or don't think you should have received this email, Australia Post does not represent, warrant or guarantee that the integrity of this email communication has been maintained nor that the communication is free of errors, viruses or interference.

With an email address pointing to "za" I refused to be wandering
Fred

PS with a lot of apparently manually generated formatting codes removed

 

[Brissy1]

Picked the wrong person for this

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My daughter got the same "hi dad" scam text today and showed me, said (jokingly)they must have got the dad/daughter ph numbers mixed.
Don't get scammed she said; I promised never to send or give her money no matter how convincing

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

I recently had two scam attempts on my card after returning from Europe.
Both attempts over a weekend and both from “uber eats”.
I recently had two scam attempts on my card after returning from Europe.
Both attempts over a weekend and both from “uber eats”.

I used my card on vending machines to get water bottles to drink, very possibly one of the ones I used had a copier.
About the same time, I gave someone on Reddit one of those $5 prize gift things, and whamo, ...
A lot of zero dollars pre autho appeared, maccas delivery, doordash, and uber eats, etc, then an uber eats purchase appeared, for $25.23...
I complained to my bank, they refunded the money, so have never used vendos again, and am banned now from Reddit.
Wonder why uber eats cant upgrade their security.
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For Brissy1:
My daughter got the same "hi dad" scam text today and showed me, said (jokingly)they must have got the dad/daughter ph numbers mixed.
Don't get scammed she said; I promised never to send or give her money no matter how convincing
Tell her to use code words, only the 2 of you will know.
Sometimes, we do have to genuinely move money, osko etc.

 

[AuSammy]

Every week I receive a handful official looking stuff all in Portuguese from Brazil email addresses. I fed one through translator - some threat about a parking fine; another about my incoming shipment needing import taxes to be paid before delivery. All BS, all scams, all (very) mildly amusing.

Makes a change from months of dozens of emails allegedly from UK companies offering me freebies rewarding me for my excellent patronage. Haven't been to the UK since way before covid and then was only in transit.

I've been noticing a trend that I very rarely receive scam emails on weekends; are scammers now only working "business hours"

 

[VPS]

I think they really want me to join the Illuminati

 

[albatross710]

I was lucky enough to get an early gmail address of first name. last name @ gmail.com. Consequently I get a steady supply of legitimate email intended for my dopple gangers all over the world. get the confirmation emails for a neat "tire" program in Florida, another guy's supplement's subscription, multiple school reunions, a few parent groups wondering why the other me didn't volunteer.

The most convincing one and I am not sure if it is legitimate or a scam is a Bahamas based shipping company that sends holiday hour updates, rate charts, occasional freight forward docs, real addresses for Mr Albatross in the USA going places so it seems. But I think it is a really well built scam as the domains are not right but consistently not right. Who knows.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

I was lucky enough to get an early gmail address of first name. last name @ gmail.com. Consequently I get a steady supply of legitimate email intended for my dopple gangers all over the world. get the confirmation emails for a neat "tire" program in Florida, another guy's supplement's subscription, multiple school reunions, a few parent groups wondering why the other me didn't volunteer.

The most convincing one and I am not sure if it is legitimate or a scam is a Bahamas based shipping company that sends holiday hour updates, rate charts, occasional freight forward docs, real addresses for Mr Albatross in the USA going places so it seems. But I think it is a really well built scam as the domains are not right but consistently not right. Who knows.

Best to leave those things alone.
Also hover over sender, sometimes they use masks of themselves.
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Also end of the Aus tax year, so a million emails from the ilks of (my.au.gov) will come in.
Genuine is of course (my.gov.au), but even then hover.

 

[prozac]

I was lucky enough to get an early gmail address of first name. last name @ gmail.com. Consequently I get a steady supply of legitimate email intended for my dopple gangers all over the world. get the confirmation emails for a neat "tire" program in Florida, another guy's supplement's subscription, multiple school reunions, a few parent groups wondering why the other me didn't volunteer.

The most convincing one and I am not sure if it is legitimate or a scam is a Bahamas based shipping company that sends holiday hour updates, rate charts, occasional freight forward docs, real addresses for Mr Albatross in the USA going places so it seems. But I think it is a really well built scam as the domains are not right but consistently not right. Who knows.

Check ownership and history at a whois site like this one - Whois Lookup, Domain Availability & IP Search - DomainTools

 

[NM]

I was lucky enough to get an early gmail address of first name. last name @ gmail.com. Consequently I get a steady supply of legitimate email intended for my dopple gangers all over the world. get the confirmation emails for a neat "tire" program in Florida, another guy's supplement's subscription, multiple school reunions, a few parent groups wondering why the other me didn't volunteer.

The most convincing one and I am not sure if it is legitimate or a scam is a Bahamas based shipping company that sends holiday hour updates, rate charts, occasional freight forward docs, real addresses for Mr Albatross in the USA going places so it seems. But I think it is a really well built scam as the domains are not right but consistently not right. Who knows.

I get similar from my long-owned gmail address. I suspect there are some people with similar name who sign up for things and accidentally give my gmail address instead of their own similar address. I tried to let Amex know that they are sending statement and notification emails to me about someone else's corporate Amex account, but they were not interested in trying to fix the error and now I just block email from Amex to that email address. I have a different email address for my own Amex communications.

I suspect I would be able to get into many shopping system accounts using my gmail address by following password reset process that sends a reset link to my email address. Its been tempting to try, but so far I have resisted and just delete the emails.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

(((boris.j0&nson4156@gmail))) eg, sometimes scammers do pick names like that to scam.
I am just using that as an eg, and yes, I know he is no longer the UK PM.
Sometimes the Africans will add numbers after the names of real people.