Scams like these

[jb747]

I do not have friends,

That system works for me too.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

Coming to think about it, does anyone know, how scammers can insert who they want to have their email "seem to appear" from?
Is it taught to them?
Eg (AF*officer41231@af*.gov.au) using it as an example, where it fact its from (georgios41779@g*ail.com)?
Or the disclosure is "not allowed"?

 

[VPS]

Sometimes too, you have to think of it this way, maybe some people do it like this to fish for live email addresses.
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Had something from (Centre-link Australia), but hovering over, its the Catholic uni of Ecuador, (non-respond@...), I know now to hover over, ...

I think everyone knows how to hover now - it's been mentioned several times in this thread

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

As an aside, the news said last month was scam awareness month.
Think too, that some people are just too money hungry, chasing the highest return, either for savings or super, and move money.
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Best way, to avoid a big money draw, is to have 2 accounts with your bank, once your pay or Centrelink pension goes in, debit preferably, and move any unneeded $ to a sav account , can transfer $ back when you need it.
If the scammers try to *uck out a large sum, and you havent got a lot in a debit account, it will get declined.
If they try a small amount, you would see what would be happening, and can take action asap.
Sometimes, having a debit card is better than having a credit card, with a large (available credit) balance, even tho its the banks money.
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Coming to think about it, does anyone know, how scammers can insert who they want to have their email "seem to appear" from?
Is it taught to them?
Eg (AF*officer41231@af*.gov.au) using it as an example, where it fact its from (georgios41779@g*ail.com)?
Or the disclosure is "not allowed"?
No one wants to say how they do it?

 

[JessicaTam]

Coming to think about it, does anyone know, how scammers can insert who they want to have their email "seem to appear" from?
Is it taught to them?
Eg (AF*officer41231@af*.gov.au) using it as an example, where it fact its from (georgios41779@g*ail.com)?
Or the disclosure is "not allowed"?

A quick Google search shows that the major email clients can do this as a matter of course.

 

[Dmac59]

Not a customer of Latitude - nice try.

 

[Forg]

Coming to think about it, does anyone know, how scammers can insert who they want to have their email "seem to appear" from?
Is it taught to them?
Eg (AF*officer41231@af*.gov.au) using it as an example, where it fact its from (georgios41779@g*ail.com)?
Or the disclosure is "not allowed"?

The software which sends emails does this … maybe not all the software you use on a private level, but if you work for a company who wants anything you send looking like it comes from “a department” then IT can set it up.

There is also a deeper level.
At the level any normal recipient will view, the “sender” can appear as anything that’s configured in the email software which sent the message.
However, if you delve into the bits & bytes there’s metadata inside the message which tells you where it really came from … most users won’t see this unless they explicitly view the source of a message (and it’s gobbledigook to the normal human being). The bulk SPAM email senders can also manipulate this deeper-level stuff.

 

[AustraliaPoochie]

I have gone into "view raw message" but still, on a normal non spam non scam email, cant see where to try to find original sender.
Thanks anyway.
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For Dmac59, didnt Latitude also really got hacked a while back, before the Optus one.
Imagine if a Latitude customer did get that email, would take 30min/1 hr to solve, if have to phone Latitude up, and their call cen(ter) would most likely be overseas.
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Guess tho, if a scammer group was up to it, they would join all the data from those others org, ie, Optus/Medibank/Qantas etc, and would have amassed a lot of info.