[Art is everything]

All I can say is more fool you.
How many times do people have to be warned that banks or Government authorities will not ask for personal details via email?
There is no excuse whatsoever and “half asleep” is certainly not an excuse.
At least you are not blaming the bank for your stupidity!

Geez rude much? They had the decency to warn others from their error. Maybe next time scroll on by.

 

[Defiant540]

Centrelink I think

 

[deni67]

It is not a mistake!
It is stupidity!
How many warnings do people need before they wake up?

What about my bank being hacked by someone buying "CyberGhost" just before Christmas through no fault of my own.
Should I just close my account just in case it happens again?

 

[Defiant540]

This has been mentioned a lot by the SDC so I think we have it covered by now.

it can NEVER be said enough!

 

[deni67]

it can NEVER be said enough!

I honestly don't remember saying that, i'm going to delete it as it's not something I would normally say

 

[Zemo]

Everyone makes mistakes.

Yebbut, did the misspelling in the email come from the SDC page or the so-called Centerlink page or was it the work of member di murray?

 

[deni67]

Yebbut, did the misspelling in the email come from the SDC page or the so-called Centerlink page or was it the work of member di murray?

Yebbut?

 

[Tervueren]

It is not a mistake!
It is stupidity!
How many warnings do people need before they wake up?

Nobody is perfect.

 

[Zemo]

I check my bank several times a day, one morning I noticed an amount taken out that I didn't authorise, image below. First thing I did was go to Paypal but there was no such transaction made through them, but just to be on the safe side I removed my bank account details that they had on file.
Next I contacted my bank who cancelled my card straight away and organised a new one, which took ages to get here because of the Christmas and New Year holidays.
I don't get how it can say it's from Paypal yet no transaction showed up. Anyway the upshot is I just received my refund from the bank last week.

Obvious answer ... how could the scammongrels take any money out of your bank without your authorisation? If they just say you owe $115, supposedly out of the Westpac account and number named and then go ahead and hit your account for it, how could they have those details without some input from you?
Is it so easy for them to make up an account and number from any bank and then proced to withdraw the funds without any action on your part, meaning that everyone is open to this sort of action? Where's the fabled security that the financial institutions keep on telling us they use to stop this simple level of crime?

 

[Zemo]

Yebbut?

Short for "Yeah, but ... "
Haven't you noticed that everything gets shortened these days?

 

[kerrikennel]

Yep, I received this bit coin type email a while ago. Toss it to the bin where it belongs.

 

[Victoria56]

I have received this scam email from someone pretending to be PayPal. I have never had an account with
PayPal Services and it is definitely a scam. I know a lot of people have accounts with this company so please be warned! On looking to see who it was actually from the name [email protected] come to light. If this had really been from PayPal they would have surely not allowed the purchase to go through if they already knew it was "without authorisation" as they quoted.


[email protected]

ID number of the customer: FYU658FYJ79866

There is evidence that your PayPal account was accessed without authorisation. For the Bitcoin purchase, $500 has been taken out of your account.

This transaction will appear automatically after a day, and the funds will be deducted from PayPal activity.

If you think you did not complete this transaction at that time, please contact us immediately.

Number for customer service: +61 272 391 232

To get assistance, visit the PayPal Help Support Centre section.

We are open for business from 6:00 AM to 6:00 PM.

Regards

PayPal Billing Department

I got a couple similar so went and checked our Paypal accounts, went back and marked the emails as spam.

 

[David567]

Similar emails were circulating claiming to be from Amazon. The emails had a fake logo and mine came from Russia.
Also fake Aust Post emails coming from Russia and New York are doing the rounds. They don't even have the Au Post logo.

 

[Reet]

Who in their right mind is going to believe these very obvious scams. No-one in their right mind would put their bank cards in the mailbox surely? If I received a call of that nature I would immediately hang up and call my bank to find out if there really was a problem.
In fact I have a very good banking system whereby if someone tries to enter my account the bank rings me then takes pains to identify that it is me and then usually freezes my account while they investigate. It is inconvenient for me but at the same time they are safe-guarding my account.

 

[deni67]

Obvious answer ... how could the scammongrels take any money out of your bank without your authorisation? If they just say you owe $115, supposedly out of the Westpac account and number named and then go ahead and hit your account for it, how could they have those details without some input from you?
Is it so easy for them to make up an account and number from any bank and then proced to withdraw the funds without any action on your part, meaning that everyone is open to this sort of action? Where's the fabled security that the financial institutions keep on telling us they use to stop this simple level of crime?

The lady at the bank was telling me that they use some sort of machine to go through millions of numbers until they come across one they can use.
There was no input on my side, I didn't know about it until I checked my bank one morning and I freaked out.
They didn't have those details from me, the last time I used Paypal was at the beginning of 2023

 

[Zemo]

Just shows you how little control we really have over our finances these days if some scum merchant can just dial in and reef money hand over fist out of your bank account without you even knowing about it until it's far too late.
And, no doubt, that technological capability would be on sale for a good number of bucks to anybody able to cough up the required cash to the other thieves. Used to be that these bastards would have to put in a fair amount of time and effort to get at you. Now all they have to do is sit back, beer or some other drink in hand, click a keyboard button and laugh all the way to the bank, as they used to say, except these days they wouldn't use banks: they're too unsafe.
We got scammed for about $36,000 (he said he was from Optus -- no Indian accent -- recited an Optus employee number and a Brisbane Optus office headquarters address and gave us our Optus phone and account numbers, our address and bank account details out of which we paid the Optus bill). He said (and these are his exact words) all this was to put our minds at ease that he was legit and wasn't a scammer.
The next day, after we'd seen just how much damage they'd done until we managed to get rid of him the previous day with a (supposed) call to the Australian Federal Police to get some action in tracing the call and he abruptly hung up, he rang us back and wished us to have a happy day.
There are two words to describe these people -- one is "bastard" and the other one ends in "ing".

 

[Suzanne rose]

I check my bank several times a day, one morning I noticed an amount taken out that I didn't authorise, image below. First thing I did was go to Paypal but there was no such transaction made through them, but just to be on the safe side I removed my bank account details that they had on file.
Next I contacted my bank who cancelled my card straight away and organised a new one, which took ages to get here because of the Christmas and New Year holidays.
I don't get how it can say it's from Paypal yet no transaction showed up. Anyway the upshot is I just received my refund from the bank last week.
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Sounds like the scammer took straight from your account not paypal. Sounds very strange ,you would think the bank would have sent it to paypal

 

[Tigers]

I have had similar, emails from, this FAKE pay pal email. another FAKE email i am getting, once a month is.......supposadly from my INTERNET PROVIDER,. telling me, they COULD NOT take the money out of my acc, & to forward my banking details to this email. I DID SEND A COPY OF THIS EMAIL TO MY INTERNET PROVIDER FOR THEM TO SEE & HOPFULLY DEAL WITH

 

[mylittletibbies]

It is not a mistake!
It is stupidity!
How many warnings do people need before they wake up?

She didn't do anything stupid. How is it her fault if an unauthorised payment appears on her account.
In the past a similar thing happened on my husband's account. I also check accounts every day.
I checked this payment through our bank, and they said it was a towing company.
As my husband didn't own a car as he didn't drive and my car hadn't been towed this was impossible.
As in this story the card was cancelled and the funds reimbursed.
How is that stupidity. You should read the story more closely and not be so quick to judge.

 

[mylittletibbies]

The lady at the bank was telling me that they use some sort of machine to go through millions of numbers until they come across one they can use.
There was no input on my side, I didn't know about it until I checked my bank one morning and I freaked out.
They didn't have those details from me, the last time I used Paypal was at the beginning of 2023

Exactly, this is the same as happened on my husband's account.
He was housebound due to illness owned neither a mobile phone or a computer, so there was no input from him and still this payment appeared on his account.