[Chele]

Medicare SMS​

Just a heads up about another scam. Medicare. I did waste an hour trying to contact them, however they already know about it. Nowhere to report it to them on their website or app of course.

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[Veggiepatch]

Did the text come from Montenegro?

 

[harrywwc]

if you've not already, please contact Scam Watch - https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/

 

[Rob44]

Chuck your mobile phone in........I know, I've said it before......the deep blue sea. Maybe after destroying the SIM card so as to avoid those fishy scams.

 

[Veggiepatch]

Chuck your mobile phone in........I know, I've said it before......the deep blue sea. Maybe after destroying the SIM card so as to avoid those fishy scams.

Phishy is the word you are looking for....

 

[suem59]

Yes I got this one, just ignored it like all the others, was a busy day for them... my non existent toll account was also due and my parcel was being held ransom.

 

[Rob44]

Phishy is the word you are looking for....

Just showing my age; I didn't mean to, but these modern words take a bit of learning............

......my non existent toll account was also due and my parcel was being held ransom........

There are highwaymen and foot-pads everywhere these days.

 

[Nana Zorak]

I usually get this type of Scam . I just delete it as with every get rich scheme the scammers try to get me to invest in. I had once tried the crypto scam but got cold feet & spoke to my bank about it & they stopped my card being hacked.

 

[ToniaKisliakov]

Scammers love you all as long as you obey them

 

[Chele]

So, yeh, I'm used to them too. Nothing beats the guy on the other end of the "turn your computer on for us to fix it" scam a few years ago. He ended up telling me he was Bin Laden's nephew and had a gun. I told him what he could do with his gun...

 

[David567]

I had a good laugh at the link provided. Some scammers are more stupid than we are.

 

[Colette 3799]

I’m very careful but my cards were compromised this week from two different banks. i never click on links but I got an email with an invoice attached. I was waiting for an invoice so I opened the email for about five seconds, realised it wasn’t what I was waiting for and deleted it, no links or anything. Next my account has a $299 charge to someone in Florida. I got onto Combank and my money was returned within 48hours. I did not provide any details when I opened the email for those brief seconds but they managed to get my card number. The bank issued a new card. The second one was I filled in a survey, which I’ve done many times for different services etc. This one was for SHEIN and there was a prize at the end, they had my details. It was then I decided to check on the sender of the email and it looked strange. I was right onto the bank and they said I hadn’t technically been scammed but asked if I’d signed up for something as they were taking a monthly subscription. I said no I hadn’t so again, the bank cancelled my card and issued a new one so they only got $4 which they said was postage for my prize. I did eventually get an email from this ‘firm’ so I immediately cancelled the subscription. Nothing to do with SHEIN. These scammers are changing the way they present things which even the most careful of us are fooled.

 

[Willie0421]

Yes there is
It was given to me by their Twitter Assistant
it’s [email protected]
This applies to all Scams ATO, Medicare and Centrelink
I have been getting a boat load of them since the Optus and Medibank Private fiasos
One day in frustration I upload one of them onto the Services Australia Twitter account and that was their response so just email to them and they deal with it

 

[freedy50]

I've had similar, but I just put it on my phone blocklist which seems to be very long now.

 

[Frappe]

Yes I got this one, just ignored it like all the others, was a busy day for them... my non existent toll account was also due and my parcel was being held ransom.

yes I have had all of them recently I just delete

 

[Macarj]

Yeah I got that just ignored it

 

[Nana Zorak]

Amazing isn't it that the methods they use are sometimes so sophisticated & at others so clumsy. No wonder we get caught. Not at the clumsy ones.

 

[zero 2]

Yes I received this not so long ago..I even emailed them to warn them of the scam..they didn't seem to interested at all..which I found astoundingly ignorant..they dont add a place to add a credit card so was kinda obvious to say the least.. but I believe they should have put out public warning of this scam..not everyone clicks immediately..