I got an email saying my last payment was deducted twice and they will refund me.
Looked totally legit as it was from an email address @telstra.com.au

But having to click on a link to "claim the refund" was a bit dumb so i doubted it and rang telstra. They said it was a scam, aware of it today, and are onto it.

I said I was very concerned that it was from telstra.com.au - normally the scam is easy to spot as it has telstra.yahoo.com or dumb stuff like that.

How can they use the telstra domain to send their email? Must be a telstra customer, yeah?
Well no, cos then they would get a @bigpond.com email given to them.
So must be a telstra employee in on it right?

What's the deal?

It's easy to fake the 'from' header for SMTP, PHP, etc. mail. Depending on which email application you use, you may be able to hover your mouse over the 'from' address and see the true original message location.

Re; email addresses - I've had emails from my 'supervisor' with my email (@domain...etc. I use my own business domain) asking me to open/save the attached zip file. Funny as I'm self employed!

I got about 5 within the week from management, HR etc.

I get them in waves of up to several a day. I also get emails from Apple and Paypal asking me to complete my details or do stuff to stop my account being suspended.

Apart from being blindingly obvious, it is nice that they write these things in delightfully fractured english. They're quite fun to read.

There was a legitimate email from Telstra recently. They apologised fora recent (and well publicised service disruption) and said we would get data downloads all day Sunday.

www.theage.com.au/technology/telstra-customer-chews-through-425gb-of-mobile-data-during-free-data-sunday-20160216-gmuz72.html

Unhook3d said..
Yeah we get hundreds of them a day to our company. I don't understand why people bother with this crap, I mean they stand to gain nothing yet they waste so much time with sending computer viruses etc?

www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-29/scams-rip-off-thousands-of-australians/5986076

Because it makes them hundreds of millions of dollars.

AndyR said..
Mrs got one in mail yesterday from telstra on the date it said "fev" Not "Feb" only thing that made her think twice about the letter.
Looked like the real deal until she spotted that.

There was an article that said that they intentionally make mistakes and use very poor wording as it acts as a pre-filter for the scammers. The argument is that if you don't notice these mistakes and think its genuine, you are more likely to be a bit gullible when it comes to the actual scam.

It makes uh bit of cents. Iv yu dont notice these thinks then maybee you are ah bit more gullable?

Mark _australia said..
I got an email saying my last payment was deducted twice and they will refund me.
Looked totally legit as it was from an email address @telstra.com.au

But having to click on a link to "claim the refund" was a bit dumb so i doubted it and rang telstra. They said it was a scam, aware of it today, and are onto it.

I said I was very concerned that it was from telstra.com.au - normally the scam is easy to spot as it has telstra.yahoo.com or dumb stuff like that.

How can they use the telstra domain to send their email? Must be a telstra customer, yeah?
Well no, cos then they would get a @bigpond.com email given to them.
So must be a telstra employee in on it right?

What's the deal?

My experience is that if they are going to refund they simply credit your account which they surprising have done in the past.

Good pick up Mark

There are currently lots of scam emails floating with "your receipt" "your delivery"around with a ".doc" attachment.

The file is the virus.

Just delete

Chris6791 said..

Mark _australia said..

Nobody is that dumb.

Never, ever, ever underestimate how stupid or dumb people can be!

I have to agree wholeheartedly to that.
Never ceases to amaze me how many times this stuff is in the news, media, everywhere, along with emails we send out reminding staff not to click this stuff and almost weekly we get some numpty click an "australia post" or "telstra" etc. email <facepalm> and <sigh>

No difference between Telstra bill and this scam, except the scams propably cheaper and they respond quicker

^^^ Makes me laugh, it is the french phonetic for don't pay! They must be from a french speaking african? country?

Unhook3d said..
Yeah we get hundreds of them a day to our company. I don't understand why people bother with this crap, I mean they stand to gain nothing yet they waste so much time with sending computer viruses etc?

bot networks and zombie hordes are seriously powerful when used properly.