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Post by Banjo on Jan 15, 2024 17:53:05 GMT 7
I got an email today supposedly from Norton Antivirus informing me that two years payments, a sum of $350, for their service was about to be deducted from my bank account and to ring them immediately (on a genuine Australian phone number) if there was some error involved. Came with a very convincing pdf billing file attached. It almost had me reaching for my phone and I know how the game is played.
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Post by highlander4000 on Jan 15, 2024 21:26:17 GMT 7
I've been getting a few random phone calls with +61 numbers attached recently. I just ignore. For a short time I trie looking on Google for the numbers but with no success. Not worth the effort. Ignore. Scammers are everywhere nowadays.
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Post by rainyday on Jan 16, 2024 8:44:37 GMT 7
Yep, never respond to an email asking you to ring a certain number. Always go to the original source. Nor login to any business through an email received.
I had a bank employee ring from a mobile number just over a year ago. He was offering a reduced interest rate on my mortgage. Wanted me to confirm my details before he could proceed to apply reduced rate. I politely said I will ring you on the bank landline number. Turned out he was legit, but did I give him a lesson on not ringing customers on an unknown mobile number.
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Post by mspurple on Jan 20, 2024 14:23:21 GMT 7
Get them all the time and a heap of others- I am seriously lucky to get 5 genuine emails over a 24 hr period yet every morning I literally have hundreds of different emails that look genuine about parcels that need to be delivered/picked up from quite a few delivery companies including Auspost who I also get scam text messages from, surveys from the bank, norton is one I get about ten of each day, telstra, car manufacturer telling me my car is recalled for work, insurance companies, google, apple, disability services help etc.
Clicking on any email or any link in a text message these days is just not safe as far as I am concerned given the amount of these I get that seriously look genuine so I never do- I always call the company on the number I have already and totally ignore all information in these texts/emails now. I also no longer answer phone numbers I do not know as with all the AI stuff and scamming people are having to say less and less to have their voices cloned.
Take me back to late 80's or anywhere in the 90's and leave me there.... this online, human communication free world many are pushing for and creating will be the end of peace and safety for us all. Already done my head in TBH
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Post by mspurple on Jan 20, 2024 14:30:05 GMT 7
Oh, thought I should mention that every Auspost office I have asked to help me work out how to stop the scam text messages coming in to my phone on the same feed/text stream or under the same contact information that the genuine Auspost texts come in on have no clue how that is even happening. So, I get a genuine email or text message from Auspost informing me a parcel will be either delivered or sent to me today and to click the link for more info or detailed tracking and funny thing is the scammers seem to always know when I am due a parcel as that is when I get the scam "click this link for more info" texts come in under Auspost contact details. No one seems interested in helping me raise the problem with someone higher though even though they all look quite confused and concerned when I show them my phone.
Just do not ever click links sent to you!!!
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Post by Denis-NFA on Jan 21, 2024 17:03:50 GMT 7
mspurpleI'm shocked. I think I'd be scared to open my email if I were you and I'm not surprised you don't like your internet experience. What a pack of lowlifes these scum really are! You have to remember that Australia Post, Australian government computers are broken into by online thieves. The PM said that even the Defence Department computers were recently broken into and he indicated other departments without saying which ones. May I suggest that you set up at least 3 new email accounts with 3 different email providers all with separate user names and passwords... making sure you write it all down of course... and use 1 for the really important stuff to do with money like banks and Mygov, another for Medicare, Australia Post, your doctor, etc... and a third for family and friends. Keep your existing email for the junk which you then should be able to block and report them, even Australia Post. For a list of free email providers I did a quick search and looked through this list of 10 which seems okay... a couple were new to me but the other 8 I know or know about. The 10 Best Free Email Accounts for 2024. I have 3 accounts with my main email on Outlook as well as GMail and Proton. Other members may have suggestions as well. I still get junk email on my Outlook account but nothing compared to you and those I do get I report them which blocks them. No wonder your son setup more privacy on your browser for you. Hopefully you can have a better email experience. All the best Denis-NFA
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Post by Denis-NFA on Jan 24, 2024 13:01:45 GMT 7
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Post by Banjo on Jan 24, 2024 17:19:47 GMT 7
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Post by nomadic on Jan 24, 2024 20:27:11 GMT 7
I'm too worried to put mine in there.
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Post by bear on Jan 25, 2024 6:17:53 GMT 7
Good news for us here 😀 Not so good for my personal ones, though what it really means, I have no idea, as IIRC I've never interacted with either site that's mentioned. Maybe my memory's slipping, could it be, the internet is wrong . With the total numbers involved in the breaches, I won't be losing any sleep over being Pwned twice in the last 16 years, as mathematically speaking compared to below, it's infintesimal. Cheers 🐻 Gravatar: In October 2020, a security researcher published a technique for scraping large volumes of data from Gravatar, the service for providing globally unique avatars . 167 million names, usernames and MD5 hashes of email addresses used to reference users' avatars were subsequently scraped and distributed within the hacking community. 114 million of the MD5 hashes were cracked and distributed alongside the source hash, thus disclosing the original email address and accompanying data. Following the impacted email addresses being searchable in HIBP, Gravatar release an FAQ detailing the incident.
Compromised data: Email addresses, Names, Usernames ShopBack: In September 2020, the cashback reward program ShopBack suffered a data breach. The incident exposed over 20 million unique email addresses along with names, phone numbers, country of residence and passwords stored as salted SHA-1 hashes. The data was provided to HIBP by dehashed.com.
Compromised data: Email addresses, Geographic locations, Names, Passwords, Phone numbers
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