WARNING WARNING NEW COMPUTER FRAUD HOAX

Hoax slayer is another good site

rofl ..
the mental capacity and social intelligence is reversely proportional to the circumference of the waistline. Australia is the fattest nation in the world and getting worse .. so why do you wonder ???

have fun
gmd

Sometimes it is so easy to get sucked into these scams. My other brother in law has a brtoher that ahs spent 10 k on one scam, he is a little disabled, from a dating scam. the one that got caught this time happens to be a manager of a company, not exacatly stupid by any means, just caught off guard, and i have being caught off guard as well!!!!


you could be thinking of something else and then you get a call sying sorry i am recieveing your emails, and the isp will fix it for you??? for a price.

We are humans, we all have the same varying degrees. hey i got caught with win7, thought i was on a good deal, found out and got burnt!!! and i don't get burnt, usually!!! but i will find out who this person is???? one day.

there's a couple of good sites above to check, hoax slayer is one.

We had one like this and I had it passed over to me from Bruce. I just asked for their phone number and said I would ring them back. They made up a Victorian number and gave it to me. The trouble was that it had one more digit than it should. There was a moment or two of confusion from them before they sort of reeled off a number which no doubt they made up on the spot.

Di

You still need to be carefull with this as it is possible to have a VOIP number for any area in Australia. When you ring back you will get a very official sounding person that could be anywhere in the world.
If a caller is offering or asking for anything it's best to just ignore them.
Chris

Thanks for letting us know your experiences and warning us.
Take care, safe travels.
Bye Ma.

HI chriss , thats kind of my point though - if they do INFACT offer you a number it will be a 131 or 1300 or 1800 number a voip will be easily spotted

you can then take that number , put it in google and it will come up with the company name for example - try 132 132 in google - it will show you one of the large Australian companies and a direct link to there webpage - dont even need to know who it is when you try that number , if the number they gave is verified this way - then maybe its legit

If they offer a dodgey number or a number that is not 1300 1800 ect then it will not be legit as customers service providers hardly ever give direct numbers - but ask that you contact there toll free numbers then ask for them through the various sections

Hope this helps someone in the future to be more fraud wary

No, it wasn't a 1300 number or anything like that. I knew that asking them for a number would 'throw' them.

When we were selling out Troopy you would be surprised at how many scam emails, sms messages etc we received. Anything that is too good to be true usually is.

Besides their foreign accent gives a slight clue, not to mention none of the 'real' companies contact in that fashion.

The worst thing is that some people can get caught.

The scams we know of are just amazing.

Di