Post by: Hairs on April 03, 2020, 05:42:46 AM
I'm getting hammered with both emails and texts to my business contacts offering cheap financed loans,
"just provide us your ABN"
"Just like thousands of other ABN holders you can access cheap loans"
Mark it as spam, and they appear again with a slightly different email address.
If in doubt, contact your account or ask someone.
I would hate to see anyone that is struggling as it is to be caught by these bastards.
Take care Swaggers.
Post by: Bigfish on April 03, 2020, 06:27:25 AM
Post by: Hairs on April 03, 2020, 06:45:17 AM
Do you have a setting on your e-mail that can detect and delete these e-mails before they appear. I use Thunderbird as e-mail client and have no worries with spam and other such rubbish.Hi mate,
I use my tablet & phone(Samsung Email) for most email communication these days, I do have on the laptap(w10) Thunderbird.
The Samsung email client, you can flag emails as spam, what I'm finding is the address maybe different by one character.
I think I will dig into my web hosting settings and see if there is the ability to flag emails these as spam.
Cheers
Post by: paceman on April 03, 2020, 07:36:32 AM
it's top notch in filtering out all of the rubbish.
easily added to a thunderbird client, which i use on my desktop at home...
Post by: Bigfish on April 03, 2020, 07:56:48 AM
Hi mate,
I use my tablet & phone(Samsung Email) for most email communication these days, I do have on the laptap(w10) Thunderbird.
The Samsung email client, you can flag emails as spam, what I'm finding is the address maybe different by one character.
I think I will dig into my web hosting settings and see if there is the ability to flag emails these as spam.
Cheers
On Thunderbird I can also right click on the senders e-mail address and then select create filter form...from there I just add the address to either trash, important, personal or whatever folder you wish to use. 95% it goes to the trash bin for me..
Post by: Hairs on April 03, 2020, 08:07:31 AM
Just in the last hour it has stopped 37 emails from going to the inbox of 6 accounts thst I monitor.
The ones it doesn't stop are the ones not on Blacklists yet or where the address looks like a legitimate source.
I've spoken to a couple of IT techs, they say the scammers are getting better at their craft.
I guess it is a first world problem.
Hmmm
Post by: Bird on April 03, 2020, 09:10:38 AM
Quote from: Bigfish
On Thunderbird I can also right click on the senders e-mail address and then select create filter form...doesnt work when they change the email address by 1 character each time... you spend your life doing it.
Like others I find Gmail pretty good at filtering. Not perfect, but there isnt a perfect solution anymore. Find one, scum find a way round it.
Post by: Fizzie on April 03, 2020, 09:15:47 AM
doesnt work when they change the email address by 1 character each time... you spend your life doing it.
Depending which character they change!
If they change from eg scam1@scammers.net to scam2@scammers.net, you should be able to just load scammers.net with a wild card so anything from that address is blocked. ;D
Post by: Hairs on April 03, 2020, 09:28:40 AM
Imaprick@scammer.az
Imaprick@scammer.ya
And so on.
Post by: Hairs on April 03, 2020, 10:00:39 AM
Common types of coronavirus scams
We have received reports of:
phishing emails and phone calls impersonating entities. These include the World Health Organisation, government authorities, people confirmed to have the coronavirus, and legitimate businesses such as travel agents and telecommunications companies
people receiving misinformation about the coronavirus, being sent by text, social media and email
products claiming to be a vaccine or cure for the coronavirus
investment schemes
https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/news/covid-19-coronavirus-scams (https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/news/covid-19-coronavirus-scams)
Post by: Wukkers on April 03, 2020, 10:05:29 AM
Post by: edz on April 03, 2020, 12:12:53 PM
Post by: Beachman on April 03, 2020, 03:23:17 PM
A guy rings through who owns a rental property and he got a request to phone the tenant about the rent. Before ringing back the landlord did his sums on how much and how long he could help his tenant this difficult time. So he rings the tenant back and like expected he was asked can he waive the rent for a month and was about to say no problems, but during the conversation asked when did you lose your job.
Tenant says he hadn’t lost his job and if anything he is busier than ever due to the particular industry he is in, but figured everyone else is getting rent reduced or waived, so why not him.
Like expected the landlord said no because at the end of the day he still has a large mortgage to repay on that investment property.
Post by: Hairs on April 03, 2020, 03:31:24 PM
There are going to be some that are going to try it on.
Pity there can't be a public register for such low life's.
Post by: Fizzie on April 03, 2020, 04:21:11 PM
another weird one
& on the subject of weird ...
Was reading your post earlier, Edz, when my laptop's internet crashed, then wouldn't reconnect, despite everybody else in the house still being OK.
After much button pushing, swearing & hair pulling, it says the wireless adaptor has been disabled, do you want to enable it? Yes! & all good again ???
So just what sort of evil nastiness did you post to the Scammers thread ??? >:D
;D
Post by: Bird on April 03, 2020, 04:38:09 PM
On the radio this morning they were talking about rights of renters and landlords in today’s environment and what different things both are doing to get through it.what a deadset flog! Hope the landlord gives him a clip round the lugs.
A guy rings through who owns a rental property and he got a request to phone the tenant about the rent. Before ringing back the landlord did his sums on how much and how long he could help his tenant this difficult time. So he rings the tenant back and like expected he was asked can he waive the rent for a month and was about to say no problems, but during the conversation asked when did you lose your job.
Tenant says he hadn’t lost his job and if anything he is busier than ever due to the particular industry he is in, but figured everyone else is getting rent reduced or waived, so why not him.
Like expected the landlord said no because at the end of the day he still has a large mortgage to repay on that investment property.
Post by: noel_w on April 03, 2020, 09:05:31 PM
This is why you are getting spammed Hairs, you keep giving your email address out. :cheers: :cheers: :laugh: :laugh:
Imaprick@scammer.az
Imaprick@scammer.ya
And so on.
Post by: Hairs on April 04, 2020, 05:12:56 AM
This is why you are getting spammed Hairs, you keep giving your email address out. :cheers: :cheers:Ehehehehe
Cheers mate :)
Post by: Fizzie on April 04, 2020, 09:12:59 AM
This is why you are getting spammed Hairs, you keep giving your email address out. :cheers: :cheers: :laugh: :laugh:
Or he keeps visiting the "wrong" ::) websites ??? >:D
;D
Post by: Hairs on April 04, 2020, 10:53:02 AM
Or he keeps visiting the "wrong" ::) websites ??? >:DOnly followed the links you sent me.
;D
;)