Got this SMS this morning.
You’ve made a payment $1300.00 AUD to Int’l Holdings Ltd.by *Pay-paI#*VIN TD TRX ID#3A8524E96521X ,on 2021/06/05.Contact TFN:+61 1800-491-583 for query,Good day
Getting so many junk calls/SMSs that its almost time to change my number.
One of the forgotten things when your company gets hacked.
‘My pay is late, is there a problem?’
‘No problem. It’s been sent to your new account.’
‘My what?’
‘You sent us an email advising us of your new bank account.’
‘I don’t have a new bank account. I didn’t send you an email.’
‘You did! It’s got your email signature on it and everything!’
‘What’s the email address that sent it to you?’
‘Let’s have a look, okay, it’s shhfi148!3@ozmail… fark.’
My sister hired someone to restore her roof. That led to a bunch of lies and misinformation and now she is 25k down and no way to get the money back and needing to hire others to do the work (which includes them ripping up the driveway and putting stone instead of concreting like promised). A group of Irish nomads with no fixed address travelling around Aus ripping people off.
My sister is the type who would be scammed by this sort of thing, she is too trusting and naïve on these things. They find vulnerable people and they strike.
Door to door and convinced her that roof needed fixing?
The roof needed work and repainting, that was genuine. What happened is they then climbed inside her roof and produced photos that showed problems and fake insulation that wasn’t hers to convince her the roof structure needed work and more insulation.
Then they highlighted her driveway (which was really bad) and said they could do it.
After they ran off a person who was rendering the outside brick went into the roof to have a look and said they did no work and put no insulation (which were both perfectly fine btw).
That’s a really old school scam!
Ray Martin Current Affair stuff.
lol, her daughter (my niece) is going to try and get her on ACA. Cops won’t do anything at all, almost laughed at her then closed the case without checking anything.
Also it may be old school, but the state is rife with it atm apparently. They target the older community or ESL and then they confuse them until it is too late.
That’s really, really disappointing.
In Vic there is a fraud squad, who are probably the people to speak to.
I believe a lot of these cases take a looong while to get prosecuted, though
Yeah, no real way to track these creeps down. They move around a lot and they register everything in different states. This lot got their ABN from QLD, the mobile from NSW and their contact email is registered in ACT. They use a lot of fake ID’s too from what I can tell.
Yep. And there’s not going to be a nation wide manhunt for them. Doesn’t mean they won’t get caught, eventually.
From what I can work out, they are known scammers in the UK and have had to leave there because of it. JJ & Sons Home Maintenance.
What I suppose I’m trying to work out is how she found these people to do work for her?
An article about how they operate.
They basically doorknock. “We were doing some work just over the road and we noticed your roof needs repointing…”
Common scam in the UK.
She was looking at getting her roof done as she has been renovating her home using the money she got from Mum & Dad passing. Her house looked like something from a 70’s horror movie! She has done her kitchen, laundry and bathroom, painted the inside of the house and has a guy doing the rendering of the outside to cover over the mission brown bricks. She has had solar installed and they advised her to get the roof done (pointing and re-painting). She found a few people and asked for a few quotes and they seemed the best price. The did her roof right from what the rendering guy checked, it’s just the other stuff they decided to milk money from her for (the driveway is the biggest cost).
Any tradie with an Irish accent should immediately set off alarms bell.
Avoid like the plague.
Caveat emptor.
I never receives messages like this.
You obviously have no money that they know about.
I was more hanging ■■■■ on the grammar. That’s usually an indicator of non-native speaker, NewsCorp proofreader, Tim Smith MP or Blitz member.
