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got a bizarre call yesterday.

someone with what I think was an indonesian accent claiming that he was from the government and that they had had over charged me and that I was to receive a rebate of 2300 bucks.

Obviously I cottoned on right away but let him talk. basically he goes 'would you like it in the form of an electronic transfer or a cheque?'. I'm like just send me a cheque. and then he's like ok i'll just need your personal details then, and then i'm like but If you're the government then you already have my details...


He hung up
 
While not a scam in the sense of being tricked, but my old housemate got his account cleaned out after someone had put a skim reader on an ATM in Elizabeth St -

The bank eventually gave him all his money back but it did take about 3 weeks... apparently lots of people got caught as Elizabeth St is quite busy.

The lucky thing for him was the fact that this happened while myself and my girlfriend at the time were in Mexico for a couple of months, and we had left behind our rent in cash for the time we were away... It was lucky he was able to use that cash in the meantime to live while he waited for his re-imbursement..

Cover your PIN, folks
 
Never been scammed but it's so fun playing along with them. My favourite is the microsoft one when they call your home phone and say that your pc is in critical condition.
Me: Oh no I thought I had the right software and everything to keep these viruses out!
Indian Guy: Well we can work it out for you etc.
Me: Gee I'm really not good with computers hang on while I figure out to turn it on!

Put phone down, wait 10 minutes, play at game etc...the bloke will of course still be there because they are amazed they've hooked someone.

Me: Got it! Sorry about that it's booting up now, yep the apple symbol is coming up now

This is when one of two things happen

1. beeep beeep beeep
or
2. IG: What was that?

Me: Yeah that's right I own a mac pal!
 

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Never had Microsoft ones, but have had bank ones before. The 'can I confirm your identidy' rings alram bells.

In fact, I've had legit calls from the bank before regarding dodgy CC transaction and such. I always tell them, "Thanks for the call, no offence but my policy in these situations is to end the call and then initiate a call myself to the bank - that way I know it's legit" - they are usually pretty understanding of that.

Best attempt ever was not so much a scam but a guy selling Foxtel over the phone, back when I lived in a share house. He rang up, asking for 'Dave'. I told him no Dave lived at the address - he went on to say how he had this special deal arranged over several conversations with Dave, who gave this address, blah blah blah. I belived this part of the story. By the time I had clarified the address and that there was no Dave he turned and said, 'Well, would you like the special offer that I had set aside for Dave." It was that point I realised the whole story was BS to try and sell me Foxtel. I had to hand it to him, most sales people wouldn't have lasted so long with me, and he seemed to develop pretty good rapport, came accross as a decent enough bloke.
 
I received the call on the microsoft scam (I have a mac so I knew it was BS). They asked for my account and I said "how do you know that I need an upgrade but not know my account details?" The guy persisted and said he needed me to confirm it. I said, "give me your number and I will ring to confirm it."

he hung up
 
Just had the wallet inspector knock on my door. He was very nice, but he's been gone hours now, I hope he brings it back. I'm starting to think he wasn't telling the truth...
 
http://www.419eater.com

Scambaiters in action. Some of the shit they have gotten scammers to do is great. I do feel sorry for they guys that got conned into entering a war zone though.
 
I got scammed out of two hundred quid once by a junkie sparkie that I had hired. He was trying to clean up and while in my heart of hearts I probably knew he would do a runner, I kinda wanted to give him a chance. I heard that eventually he did clean up but I never saw him or my money again.
 
Feel like I'm missing out never getting called for the Microsoft scam

My laptop was 'compromised'. Whenever I logged in to netbank a fixed window covering my balance etc said I needed to download some phone security software. I use my phone as the second security measure, and this step wantedy phone number etc

It looked extremely legit considering it was 'inside' my account ie I had to actually login to see it but the fact I couldn't skip it to see my balance etc set the alarm off

Called commonwealth and they said its def not them

Old man got skimmed at a petrol station, about $1200 was spent on smokes etc over a few locations within ten minutes but he got the cash back

Got long hauled in Sydney from the airport to the city, but that happens basically anywhere
 
Footypie32 said:
Just had the wallet inspector knock on my door. He was very nice, but he's been gone hours now, I hope he brings it back. I'm starting to think he wasn't telling the truth...
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you fool
the wallet inspector does not work on tuesdays
 
ive been thinking about running a great scam for years. basically, u advertise in some way that you have used panties from a young 18 year old high school girl for sale. used. $50.00 send CC or whatever and promise it comes up on statement as a coded legit business deal. then, send nothing. Noone is gonna complain about not receivin their borderline pedo panties that are used. For $50.00 they just let it go, lesson learned. Meanwhile im fleecing every deviant sick silly in Australia of a pineapple. yep. thats how i like to roll.
 

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Catsmaninamerica said:
ive been thinking about running a great scam for years. basically, u advertise in some way that you have used panties from a young 18 year old high school girl for sale. used. $50.00 send CC or whatever and promise it comes up on statement as a coded legit business deal. then, send nothing. Noone is gonna complain about not receivin their borderline pedo panties that are used. For $50.00 they just let it go, lesson learned. Meanwhile im fleecing every deviant sick silly in Australia of a pineapple. yep. thats how i like to roll.
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I see you've watched LSATSB too, well done.
 
Received yesterday in the post a colour Brochure from a Malaysian tourist company called "Myth Tourism" it included two complimentary Lottery Prizes (Scratchies) first ticket no Prize second ticket I had won $USD 170 000. Then today same brochure same company and guess what same results another $USD 170 000. :)
First I had heard of this scam, however its been around for a while
http://scam-detector.com/travel-scams/malaysian-lottery-brochure
 
2 scams.

1. I'm waiting for the next end of world prediction so I can think of some insurance to sell to people, perhaps lifetime supply of food which my company has stored in a secret bunker some place, of course to be paid out in the event of Armageddon.
 

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kickazz said:
....Best attempt ever was not so much a scam but a guy selling Foxtel over the phone, back when I lived in a share house. He rang up, asking for 'Dave'. I told him no Dave lived at the address - he went on to say how he had this special deal arranged over several conversations with Dave, who gave this address, blah blah blah. I belived this part of the story. By the time I had clarified the address and that there was no Dave he turned and said, 'Well, would you like the special offer that I had set aside for Dave." It was that point I realised the whole story was BS to try and sell me Foxtel. I had to hand it to him, most sales people wouldn't have lasted so long with me, and he seemed to develop pretty good rapport, came accross as a decent enough bloke.
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That could actually be legit. A mate worked for Austar, and during a massive promotion they had an address/phone/name combination in one of the supermarket kiosks.

So many people put in forms that they were still calling 3-6 months later (I didn't say Austar were efficient). To avoid certain penalties, each salesman had certain quotas (full-price, 3 month free, extra channels, etc) - the higher the % of full-price deals, the better options you could offer to close the sale.

Anyway, as this was a head-office idea, they had carte blanche for anyone using the same address/number combination, even months after the original entry, as the forms had no expiry date listed.

Or, it could have just been a well-organised, 'inside job' scam
 
Catsmaninamerica said:
ive been thinking about running a great scam for years. basically, u advertise in some way that you have used panties from a young 18 year old high school girl for sale. used. $50.00 send CC or whatever and promise it comes up on statement as a coded legit business deal. then, send nothing. Noone is gonna complain about not receivin their borderline pedo panties that are used. For $50.00 they just let it go, lesson learned. Meanwhile im fleecing every deviant sick silly in Australia of a pineapple. yep. thats how i like to roll.
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Not sure if everything else is Snopes or not, but there was a dodgy cabbie in Melbourne doing this. I paid using work CC, then 2 months later had a cabcharge. I didn't remember, but possible as I was back in Melbourne.

Then 2 weeks after that. I called the bank to investigate. Whilst they were checking, it happened again a week later. Then every day. Eventually it was stopped, and I had ten $49.95, $49.96, $49.97 type transactions refunded.

About 3 months after that I saw a transaction for something like "AdultToysBallBag", again $49.95. Seeing as I worked for the bank, and this was a corporate card, this was of course picked up. Luckily it was traced from the same address as the dodgy cab charges - otherwise I'd probably have lost my job.

(Still use CC in cabs - hasn't learnt).
 
Catsmaninamerica said:
ive been thinking about running a great scam for years. basically, u advertise in some way that you have used panties from a young 18 year old high school girl for sale. used. $50.00 send CC or whatever and promise it comes up on statement as a coded legit business deal. then, send nothing. Noone is gonna complain about not receivin their borderline pedo panties that are used. For $50.00 they just let it go, lesson learned. Meanwhile im fleecing every deviant sick silly in Australia of a pineapple. yep. thats how i like to roll.
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You'll have 10,000 pineapples in no time.:D
 
I got scammed once. Learnt my lesson and I we never sign up for Telstra mobile again.
 

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