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  1. 9th October 2014, 09:50 PM #1
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    Guess this is the latest scam

    Gday All,

    In the last 4 days I have received 2 emails from the national bank ( of which I don't hold accounts and never have) telling me that the banks computers have had a shutdown and they need me to provide my details in the reply email with my accounts and the passwords. They even offered me $225 as a reward if I reply.
    Also got one asking me to complete a survey and to identify me I had to provide my accounts and passwords.

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    These low life's will try anything to get peoples hard earned. Low down scum.
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    I had a guy come in through Ebay & switch off my anti virus & lock it so I couldn't turn it back on . When I took computer to get it cleaned they told me I was lucky I don't do internet banking because they were after my bank details & pass words to clean out our bank account.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 1950landy View Post
    I had a guy come in through Ebay & switch off my anti virus & lock it so I couldn't turn it back on . When I took computer to get it cleaned they told me I was lucky I don't do internet banking because they were after my bank details & pass words to clean out our bank account.
    HOW?? through eba y??'did you allow permission to do that?
    Macs ask for administrator permission, Linux also, is yours windows?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ean Austral View Post
    Gday All,

    In the last 4 days I have received 2 emails from the national bank ( of which I don't hold accounts and never have) telling me that the banks computers have had a shutdown and they need me to provide my details in the reply email with my accounts and the passwords. They even offered me $225 as a reward if I reply.
    Also got one asking me to complete a survey and to identify me I had to provide my accounts and passwords.

    Cheers Ean
    I got an email 2 days ago saying GOD had chosen me for collection of $2million USD, I didn't know that atheists were being targeted now and I am not running a Jimmy Swaggert operation either. Got me best

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    Quote Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares View Post
    HOW?? through eba y??'did you allow permission to do that?
    Macs ask for administrator permission, Linux also, is yours windows?
    I don't know how these low life's can install a virus . I may have open it thinking it was a genuine enquire about something I was selling , all I know I had a few L/R parts on ebay & was receiving lots of emails about them & my anti virus stoped working , we installed a free anti virus off the internet & that showed that it was through ebay & when I took it to be cleaned the computer shop checked & told me the same thing.
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  7. 10th October 2014, 07:14 AM #7
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    Quote Originally Posted by Roverlord off road spares View Post
    HOW?? through eba y??'did you allow permission to do that?
    Macs ask for administrator permission, Linux also, is yours windows?
    Would have been a phishing link in an email then sent to an eBay look alike site, most likely.

    Never ever click on a link in an email that asks you to do something that you have not just previously initiated. For instance, you'd be fairly safe to assume that a verification email you received 30 seconds after setting up an account online would be legitimate. However, a random email, sent without you initiating the query, is extremely likely to be malicious. And the dead giveaway in a scam email is either promising some windfall (great aunt's third cousin left you $5m), or threatening account closure/limitation if the instructions (click this link) are not followed.
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