optimistic people are more likely to be duped

Olley46 · Guru

NAB Bank

Young Simmo · Guru

Yes Olley46, Probably for the last 5 or 10 years there have been warnings on TV, Newspapers and Web sites daily about scams, and almost every day there is a story of idiots being ripped off. I don't know if people have a grudge against their money or are blind or deaf. The latest one today is about a woman being taken for $300,000. If I could diddle somebody out of $300,000, I could tell Centrelink to give my share to the Joe Hockey Fund.

Simmo.

hako · Guru

Simmo - it's not 'idiots' that are being conned by such scams but ordinary everyday trusting people. Were you never sent up the hardware shop for a pint of spotted paint? The 1st of April does it every year as well. If you have no trust in your fellow man then you lead a life always looking over your shoulder.

Regards

Young Simmo · Guru

hako wrote:
Simmo - it's not 'idiots' that are being conned by such scams but ordinary everyday trusting people. Were you never sent up the hardware shop for a pint of spotted paint? The 1st of April does it every year as well. If you have no trust in your fellow man then you lead a life always looking over your shoulder.

Regards

WOW, an April fools joke in November, be on your guard hako, you might get HACKED.

Simmo.

I repeat the first line of my comment:::

Probably for the last 5 or 10 years there have been warnings on TV, Newspapers and Web sites daily about scams.

Hey Jim · Guru

To ALL.

Just remember two things.

1. Non of the Australian banks will ever contact you via Email about your Accounts with them. FULL STOP.

2. No government dept will send you a Email regarding your private affairs. This Includes the ATO.

Regards Jim

Santa · Guru

Most of us realise by the time we're out of our teens that there is no such thing as striped paint or a free lunch.

Perhaps the people who fall for these scams are not idiots, however, they are extremely gullible.

Desert Dweller · Guru

We get calls from an overseas call center telling us that they have to come & fix our home Telstra internet. Ónly our mobile phone is with Telstra. Our home phone & wifi internet are with some-one else. LOL.

Santa · Guru

According to this in the SMH seems

optimistic people are more likely to be duped

Guess sometimes it pays to be a grumpy old bugger. biggrin

http://www.smh.com.au/money/planning/why-optimistic-people-are-more-likely-to-be-duped-20151029-gkljgl.html

The Phantom · Guru

Hey Jim wrote:
To ALL.
Just remember two things.
1. Non of the Australian banks will ever contact you via Email about your Accounts with them. FULL STOP.
2. No government dept will send you a Email regarding your private affairs. This Includes the ATO.
Regards Jim

That's a relief. Means the wife will never find out about Mabel from down the road.

The Phantom

Spydermann · Senior Member

Desert Dweller wrote:
We get calls from an overseas call center telling us that they have to come & fix our home Telstra internet. Ónly our mobile phone is with Telstra. Our home phone & wifi internet are with some-one else. LOL.

I ask anyone that claims to be Telstra where did they get my number from and then tell them that they've actually called a Telstra back-office. Had some strange re-actions.

Spydermann · Senior Member

Hey Jim wrote:
To ALL.
Just remember two things.
1. Non of the Australian banks will ever contact you via Email about your Accounts with them. FULL STOP.
2. No government dept will send you a Email regarding your private affairs. This Includes the ATO.
Regards Jim

I got an email from 3 banks investment arms (ANZ, CBA & NAB in that order) asking me to log in and look at my non-banking investments. All 3 had links to sign onto the investment arms using my bank usercode/password.

I don't bank with ANZ and never have so I ignored that.

The CBA had come via Commsec which I deal with. I wrote to them and they admitted it was not correct - refer NAB next. CBA would neither confirm if the email was a hoax or that someone had goofed.

The NAB finance arm who'd sent me the email couldn't understand what they'd done wrong. It was genuine but I was unable to explain to them (Indian, Chinese or Filipino?) that having a link to the bank logon screen in their email was against policy. "But we are not the Bank, we a ?????? department". I tried to go to a higher authority but all I got was a senior non-English person who was really only a staff supervisor and not a guru. I gave up.

Hey Jim · Guru

Again and Again. Stop And think.

The only way that your BANK will contact you is if you log on to your Internet banking, and you have a message in your in box after log on. And it will be ONLY be of

GENERAL NATURE ONLY.

NOT DIRECTED AT YOU PERSONALLY......... Re member snail Mail.................. ONLY.

Jim

D and D · Guru

Stop being greedy. If it looks too good to be true then it probably is. If you can't remember buying that raffle ticket then you probably didn't. If some one is asking for your personal details that you have already provided to the entity making the request then it's probably a scam. This isn't rocket science and if you're still unsure do web search and contact you service provider directly.

Regards

Dave

Aus-Kiwi · Guru

I have a million to pick up too.. Get this email about every 3 weeks..
With plenty of grammar and spelling mistakes..

KFT · Guru

Got 2 emails today from "NAB" wanting me to confirm my identity to them

funny the email address was not a NAB one

they must really think we are stupid

frank

Big Gorilla · Guru

I realize this is a serious topic, but mention of call centers in India and Philippines reminded me of an amusing file I received about Telstra Customer Service. Do you mind if I lighten up the topic. Have a listen...