Strange thing happens after being in Africa for a couple of months there not seeing another euro person; I looked in the mirror and was genuinely shocked, first to suddenly realise I was white skinned, secondly how pale my skin was.
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Christ what a ā ā ā ā ā ā ā hero you are. If youāre as blasĆ© on the internet about your personal information as you are on here (by leaving your full name on your profile, Geoffrey Cliff) you ā ā ā ā ā ā ā deserve to get scammed.
2 years ago, ANU during orientated week, walked around campus offering $5 to students to participate in a survey. Questions included:
- whats the name of your first pet?
- what is your mothers maiden name
- what was your first job
Etc.
The VC had to have a cyber security talk because everyone gave up their personal information likely to be asked for password resets and the like for $5.
Yeah corporate cyber security teams run a bunch of fake attacks, work out who the idiots are to target for further education.
Literally hundreds who participated gave up the information. I was at the campus watching it, ā ā ā ā ā ā ā unbelievable.
Yeah. Social engineering. Zillions of similar schemes on SM
āwhat was your pet growing up? Tag your mum! And provide your tax file number and a scanned, certified copy of your passportā
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Iām sad that the email I got saying I needed to re-do my phishing course was not, in fact, phishing.
lmao sounds like the kind of sht iād pull in a workshop
āgo on, i bet it does nothingā¦ wrong, you dipsht! you just cost us a million bucks!ā
A former colleague rocked up to the morning check In. Saying hey everyone did you know if you clicked the links in your emails you might have to do a 2 hour cyber security course?
Half the team stood there dumbfounded. The rest were concerned because they didnāt want to do compliance. Or had already done it.
The excuse? Iām too busy doing my work.
Werethe dumbfounded group generally dumbfounded on other matters or just cyber security.
yes
anyone know of a method or an app that can block calls from a range of numbers using wildcards (eg: block all numbers beginning with 03 5616)
i donated to a fundraiser a few months back and i have been getting 5-6 calls a day from spam numbers ever since (āmy charity surveyā or some sht).
iām never donating anything other than cash ever again.
found a solution myself. app called yet another call blocker
can use wildcards to block whole ranges of numbers, and set it so you donāt get any notifications of the call even existing
so far so good. checked it today and itās knocked back 5 calls in the last 2 days
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thats what you get for helping people
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āThe best full back in a generationā falls for the dummy pass.
Iād say on any given day I get 2 scam calls, and maybe a scam text on WhatsApp. The calls are particularly annoying, generally say they come from some random city in Victoria.
Iāve seen in America they have functionality for phone providers that when you get these random calls your phone actually comes up with ālikely scamā. Does that exist in AU?
I had about 10 calls in one week from an unknown number that never left a message. They even texted me āPick me upā. Obviously, I did not. The calls stopped.
Out of curiosity, I rang the number from a phone box (ask your grandparents, kids) and the number went straight to a generic voicemail.
Iām still surprised at how persistent they were.
android better integrates with services that screen calls and provide you a āpossible scam warningā
i think ios does it as well but less seamless.
for example
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My samsung comes up with possibly scam/fraud. I donāt answer unless itās someone I know. If itās legitimate they can leave a message.
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