Fraudsters..

[bobt]

I am sure you are all cautious and wary of emails from unknown sources.

This morning I received an email purporting to be from 'BPay" stating - "The Bill Pay transfer, just sent from your online bank account, was cancelled by the bank." it quoted a reference number D3010808 an amount of 10185.12 australian dollars and a link to download details regarding the rejection.

A bank I deal with had a message posted on its site for all to read

"The Bank has received information that there is an email circulating, reporting to be from BPAY, advising that your payment has not been successful.

Please note that this email is not from BPAY and that you should delete it immediately. Do not read or open any attachments in the email.

BPAY never sends out direct email communications to its customers."

Needless to say when I first saw the email I just deleted it.

There are some gullible people out there and some that leap before they look, don't get caught.

bobt

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Thanks for the info bobt.

Cheers, Des

[atefooterz]

One good one is taxpayers paying to set up phone lines and a network, then it gets sold so taxpayers then have to suffer the loss of revenue to fund education, hospitals etc. For a brief period i was a tech support dude for the bigpond side of this rather expensive to the user and clunky of billing practices mob.(before they realised that Indian & Philippine outsourcing was a better way to share your details globally) Something that still happens today is that 4th- 5th party removed contractors call you about your bill, bundle you if you have several services or cable then if a problem arrises you lose access on all platforms requiring a large time to several areas to re activate issues, that have snafu within their system. If anyone has been able to fix a bundle error in call please post! Anyhoo what i was really sad about were the number of trusting folks who would never fall for email scams but would pay along with being called that the company was responding to a network issue that appeared to be from your device, for a small fee, usually $25- $50 they could fix it pronto or can recommend tech places to take it to. I would get a call about a device that would not go online, see a perfect connection, if they hooked up another device it would work fine. Most times their credit card would only be down the agreed amount, sometimes more! Back to the tele marketing guys... so when they upgrade/bundle your plan always ask for a new modem, box, phone etc as your equipment warranty expires as soon as your plan changes!!