Thread: New Email Scam - Bogus Traffic Fines Supposedly from the Australian Federal Police

Got to love the unsubscribe at the end. Cops have never given me that option.

A novel approach from the scammers, not relying on greed, but guilt. How stupid do they think we are?

Well they are at least making an attempt at a letterhead A friend in IT had a busy morning recently when a new secretary opened one of these - luckily they had pretty good internal compartmentalisation and were able to physically remove the affected hardware and restore everything.

A year or so ago they were also sending one around claiming you had been detected looking at p0rn and demanding you paid a 'fine' online - yeah, suuuure.

A month or so back I had a phone call from a foreign female of Asian extraction saying she represented some insurance co. had someone at my address been involved in a traffic incident recently?
I asked who she was after or what the car and rego was as there were a few drivers here and she couldn't tell me so I very politely told her to try another sucker.
Same guilt trip stunt.
H.

Just in the last week I have had two Emails from "PayPal" telling me that my account with them had been suspended because they had detected "fraudulent transactions". To clear the "suspended" account go to the link and put in my user name and password to verify that "I am who I am".
Thankfully the delete button can take care of it. On the face of it, it seems legit due to them copying pretty well a proper PayPal Email format.
Some time back I had a phone call from a Foreign voice telling me the bank had taken out fees that were illegal. Then she said that "the government" would pay back the money involved if I gave my banking details. I argued with her that she would "know" my banking numbers, to which she said that she was looking at them on her screen but needed me to give the numbers to "verify" my identity to receive the money. I was smelling a rat from the beginning when she was telling me the story.
I hung up and immediately rang the bank and told them about the scam. They thanked me for the information and made a note of it.

Sunday a week ago the phone rang. I picked it up and there was silence on the other end [Got to be a call centre] I thought it could have been one of those marketing things and was just about to hang up when a voice came on looking for my daughter. It turned out to be....Centerlink!! On a Sunday!! My daughter had started a job 2 weeks previously and Centerlink needed my daughter to contact them to finalise a case with them. Yep it was not a bogus scam but legitimate. They had been trying to contact my daughter for a while

It is standard practice in our place now that, if we cannot identify the caller on the screen of the phone, the call goes to the answering machine.
It is interesting to listen to them trying to talk to the machine.