Scammers helping you outwit the scammers
By Judy Evans
@JudyEv (334404)
Rockingham, Australia
July 11, 2024 8:50pm CST
The photo has nothing to do with the text.
Scammers never stop trying, do they? They come up with all sorts of ways to try to trick people into paying out money for nothing. There seems no end to their inventiveness.
Australia has a National Anti-Scam Centre (NASC) that works to protect people from scams. Scammers are claiming to be from this organisation, telling their victims various stories about how their information has been hacked. They may also claim to be from various other fund recovery services, cyber security organisations, lawyers, consumer advocacy groups and suchlike.
This tactic is called ‘authority exploitation’, leveraging people’s trust in authority and making them less likely to query if the caller is genuine or not.
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@Tampa_girl7 (49864)
• United States
12 Jul
The scammers are super annoying. That is a beautiful bird.
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@Aquitaine24 (11813)
• San Jose, California
13 Jul
We can all agree the bird is beautiful
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@sabtraversa (13822)
• Italy
12 Jul
I've seen spam emails like that before, I thought it was pretty hilarious. Thankfully most if not all these emails end up in the spam folder, but it never hurts to double check whether the sender is legit or not. 
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@Aquitaine24 (11813)
• San Jose, California
13 Jul
@JudyEv Yes, often they are misspelled.
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@JudyEv (334404)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Jul
@Aquitaine24 Or they have lots of letters and numbers which make no sense.
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@kaylachan (65345)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12 Jul
One of the olddest scames in the book. Ligit companies warn against such scams by reminding users repeadily that they would never call and ask for personal information.
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@kaylachan (65345)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
12 Jul
@JudyEv I was on a call with a video presatation thing, and a scammer tried to interupt us. startled me at first because I couldn't figure out where the beeping was coming from. then I realized it was someone trying to call. didn't answer and they didn't leave a message. Hell they hung up. so oh well.
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@rebelann (112254)
• El Paso, Texas
13 Jul
He was always coming up with stuff like that @Aquitaine24 kinda like 'a bird can't change its colors'
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@Aquitaine24 (11813)
• San Jose, California
13 Jul
@rebelann it’s actually funny.
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@LindaOHio (170715)
• United States
12 Jul
Beautiful bird. I'm so tired of scammer and hackers. They are everywhere. Have a good weekend.
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@Beestring (14133)
• Hong Kong
12 Jul
I've received such kind of scam calls, claiming they are from government department.
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@snowy22315 (176745)
• United States
12 Jul
That is such a pretty little bird. I got one this morning someone supposedly thanking me for making a 745 dollar paypal payment...as if! I ignore everything that looks at all like a scam, and most unsolicited emails.
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@JudyEv (334404)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Jul
Most of the ones I get at the moment relate to parcels they say I've ordered.
@Aquitaine24 (11813)
• San Jose, California
12 Jul
It’s a pretty picture regardless
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@Aquitaine24 (11813)
• San Jose, California
13 Jul
@JudyEv They’re called fairy wrens? Cute name.
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@JudyEv (334404)
• Rockingham, Australia
13 Jul
@Aquitaine24 Also blue wrens, which is a pretty obvious name.
@psanasangma (7244)
• India
12 Jul
Every person need to be aware of them however no matter how much we are aware and well informed about them sometimes there are many people falls in their trap. I once come across one video, it seems they use some kind of social engineering or pig butchering tactics
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@aninditasen (16140)
• Raurkela, India
12 Jul
I have a true caller app downloaded in my smartphone which shows if it's a scammer and therefore I am safe.
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@aninditasen (16140)
• Raurkela, India
14 Jul
@JudyEv You can download that on a smartphone but for landline phones you need a caller ID phone.
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@dgobucks226 (34957)
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12 Jul
Hmm, that's a new angle I have not heard of... If these scammers spent as much time and effort into getting a real paying job instead of trying to scam people, they could be very successful.
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@wolfgirl569 (102054)
• Marion, Ohio
12 Jul
If they worked as hard at an honest job they could make good money
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@RevivedWarrior (1115)
• India
12 Jul
Earlier, there was this Nigerian Price or ambassador sharing their wealth with us ! I also remember impersonating to get money from people .Well, never bothered on these as first no money to share and second why bother to respond to strangers.Well, good to know on these .Thanks for sharing!
