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Post by Nev and Trish. on Nov 18, 2020 15:21:45 GMT 10
Same here I wound't know the last time I answered the landline. Best thing I have ever bought.
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Post by GerryP on Nov 18, 2020 15:27:11 GMT 10
No landline at all here. A voip phone on nbn, but I couldn't even tell you the number. Mobile only for us.
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Post by dieseltojo on Nov 20, 2020 13:28:54 GMT 10
Do not answer any unknown international calls. We have had some from Tunisia to day. You answer, you pay an exorbitant call return to them.
Stark warning as missed phone call scam swindles thousands of dollars from Australians
• Scammers target Australians by calling them for one ring and then hanging up • When people call the number back their money instantly starts getting fleeced • Scamwatch has already received 19 reports of scams from unsuspecting Aussies • Police warned against picking up calls from unknown international numbers • The scammers target people by calling them on an international number for one ring and then hanging up. • When people call the number back, their money automatically starts getting fleeced by the fraudsters. Last week Scamwatch received 19 reports of 'Wangiri' scams – missed calls from international numbers that charge a premium rate if you ring the number back.
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Post by Jack Driver on Nov 20, 2020 15:04:25 GMT 10
Yep. Had a call from Tunisa the other day. My phone intercepted it and labelled it a probable scam. Needless to say I didn't return their call!
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Post by Mick Themungrel on Nov 22, 2020 1:12:34 GMT 10
Got a phone call this morning from a 03 number. Starting rabbiting on about new electric prices and they needed to check that we weren't being overcharged blah blah, I then threw a curveball by asking which state she was referring to. She babbled and ducked and dodged, so I asked again and finally got an answer, NSW, I then asked what made here think I lived in NSW? She ducked and weaved again then came out with our old address from 8 years ago. She then got told we hadn't lived there for 8 years and to fleck off and scam somebody else
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Post by dieseltojo on Nov 22, 2020 12:24:44 GMT 10
Phone call from an Indian gent to help me fix my telstra Broad band account. I am not with Telstra. And I have zero problems.
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Post by nsgnomad on Nov 22, 2020 19:23:51 GMT 10
Wasn't he kind, Paul. Anticipating your future problems. 😉
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Post by Deleted on Nov 22, 2020 21:45:30 GMT 10
Used to love seeing how long I could keep them on the line, best I got was about 8 mins. There's some really funny stuff on the net showing people that have turned the tables on them.
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Post by Old Techo on Dec 9, 2020 9:56:11 GMT 10
This email came in this morning...
It looked legit as it was correctly addressed to my bigpond account and the sender address was a familiar Telstra format.
I studied more closely the ‘click on this link’ within the email and it wanted to take me here to this suss site... mail.banglardamal.org/mail/te.html
I used my VPN and switched myself to Singapore then clicked on the suss link and it auto-redirected to here... www.davaocondominium.org/wp-admin/sirs/0c544059ba3a286/index.php#signin
and it offered me a legit looking Telstra account login page. So I logged in using a fictitious username and password which of course was accepted and then this page was offered....
Note the non-telstra URL circled in red...
The interesting thing was the suss info displayed was actually in a legit website www.davaocondominium.org/ with what looks like a bit hacked onto the end. I've emailed them to alert them to this.
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Post by nsgnomad on Dec 9, 2020 21:52:21 GMT 10
Ever alert, eh OT. 👍
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Post by Deleted on Dec 9, 2020 22:20:13 GMT 10
Top work OT, have lots of respect for the IT abilities of people like yourself.
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Post by Frank and Brenda on Dec 10, 2020 5:00:22 GMT 10
The first thing I would pick on that (other than I'm not with Telstra) is its address to Hi
I'm sure Telstra like my provider would use your name Plus they never ask for such personal things as confirming you bank details in an email
But they obviously get some people that way Good catch!
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Post by ancientmariner on Dec 10, 2020 6:53:54 GMT 10
Well picked up OT and Frank, the Hi would definitely send warning bells to me. I completely ignore those types of emails. A quick phone call if in doubt.
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Post by Old Techo on Dec 10, 2020 7:34:13 GMT 10
Frank,
No personal addressing is an important and obvious point that I meant but forgot to make yesterday.
I’m amused at times by those emails that begin with.... ‘you have been chosen as the beneficiary of a 5 million Shekel estate’ and then one of the first things they ask for is my name and address. So they ‘chose’ me but don’t know who I am
Legitimate financial institutions will send legit emails from time to time but everyone should be immediately on guard if any info is sought, especially any account verification. One does not need any IT skills if commonsense prevails.
The fact that my dodgy email was sent to my bigpond email address and the topic was my Telstra account I think may be explained thus. My bigpond email address is now about 22 years old and existed before I got my own domain names where I now have hundreds of email addresses. So in those early days my bigpond address has leaked out via friends and contacts. I rarely get spam on it but it must be known to some spammers. They probably put 2 and 2 together and tried the Telstra account scam on all of the bigpond addresses they had accumulated.
Anyone that has a bigpond email address of say me@bigpond.com will probably find they also have me@telstra.com. Try sending yourself an email. I always use my Telstra version rather than my bigpond version.
When I get an email with any link in it, even if I trust the email, I still examine the link by hovering over it. When you hover, but DON’T click, it will display the link address. Be very suspicious if that address does not look like what you would expect from say Telstra or ANZ bank. The part of the address that matters most is in red and is the actual website. Slashes that follow are sub-directories. I've had to put an 'x' in the link so that it all displays...
hxtp://mail.banglardamal.org/mail/te.html and in this second case the sub-directory is buried a bit deeper...
hxtps://www.davaocondominium.org/wp-admin/sirs/0c544059ba3a286/index.php#signin
In the dodgy email I got you can see 10 links that I circled in red. They are all perfectly legit links. The one I circled in orange is the only dodgy link and of course the important one that scammers want you to use.
Another tip I suggest is even if you trust a link or website do a test by entering garbage as a username and password. In fact this morning I tested the dodgy Telstra one with no username or password and it was still accepted as a legit login. So perhaps that is a good test that you could use. Don’t try it with your genuine username though and a garbage password as you will lose a login life. Just enter rubbish or even nothing.
When I tried that dodgy website with Firefox and Brave browsers neither would let me in and issued a dangerous website warning. So the scam word has gotten out since yesterday. I was however able to get in using Opera browser so they are a bit slow to issue a warning.
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Post by Mick Themungrel on Dec 10, 2020 21:05:12 GMT 10
I had half of BCF in stitches the other day. Waiting for my gas bottle to be filled and my phone rang, private number with the usual pause after I answered. Indian accent, Hi I am from Telstra and you are having trouble with your NBN network, Me interrupting, You mean no bloody network do you? loudly.
I A, Sir you are having trouble with your internet connection,
Me interrupting again, OOHHHH you mean my internet not no bloody network.
I A, yes sir,
Me interrupting again, Ok mate, what internet connection do I have etc etc,
I A I cant see that etc etc,
Me well mate you are telling me that you are from Telstra and I am having trouble with my internet and you cant tell me what sort of connection I have, by the way, what is your Telstra code???
I A, you can get f##ked and hung up.
I turned around to the people that had been listening and said with a very surprised ton, he told me to get fed and hung up, the whole lot just cracked up.
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