I've recently heard a group of 3 Chinese nationals have been arrested in Sydney after being responsible for eighty million scam text messages , they were sending out the toll and parcel scam messages among others to millions of Australians .
I think this explains why the gumtree scammers got blocked ,police say as soon as one site closes down another operation springs up and they know of similar operations that are already up and running.
Apparently these scammers had 3 sim boxes with 192 sim cards sending out scam messages 24 - 7.
Possibly less phone message scams at the moment .They say don't trust any text messages from a business as they don't generally contact you that way and if someone rings from a business you're meant to hang up and google the business name to get their phone number and call them back..I guess most people these days don't trust anyone and don't answer calls from private or unknown numbers.
It is hard Max because I had a hospital ring me a couple of days ago with no caller ID. I wasn't going to answer it but I did and I was lucky I did answer it. Problem is you never know.
Yes I don't see the problem answering private number calls ,I've had a few when selling on Gumtree and just ask them for their number so you can message details back.
If you get a time waster on a private number I just hang up .
The thing is there are people who won't answer a call from a private number ,I've even seen a few ads on Gumtree and the sellers say that private numbers won't be answered but as you say they could miss a call from a Doctor or a Hospital.
Another phone scam is when someone rings your phone so it rings once and hangs up before you answer , then if you ring back it's a high priced number that you receive an excessive bill for.
I saw a show the other day where scammers in India were making $20,000 a day ,all from people who weren't very tech savvy but the governments have now arrested them so it looks like it's not a good time for scammers ,I just don't understand why the governments have let them get away with it for so long,
I'm was still getting all the Gumtree scammers sending messages every time I put a new ad on Gumtree but a lot of the messages were only blocked by gumtree from me replying to to scammers messages so I had to log into my email account and block them ,then send them all to the spam folder this stopped all the old scammer accounts sending messages, now there is a report button in Gumtree messaging and I just report them all to gumtree and Gumtree blocks them but you still need to block them in your email account.
I'm still getting at least 3 scam messages every week on my phone ,usually click this link as your parcel was not delivered and the click this link you have unpaid toll etc. It's easy to know when a scammer calls as they always tell you to do something .
The other day a group of scammers were caught and they have a list of all the scammers and are arresting them all no mater what part of the world they live in, if they continue to steal from Australia.
So it's only a matter of time and the scammers will be arrested.
Hi Max, Yes the scammers seem to have dropped off of late, obviously they are being flushed out. I still get a few in my emails but they are so easy to spot, they are so crudely put together they just stand out so much, I can't imagine why they keep bothering to send them. The odd one comes on my phone but they to are easy to spot and flick. Hopefully they keep getting caught.
As for free range eggs if you are a person that has chickens you will know the difference quite quickly. First is the yolk color will be quite dark when compared to hen house raised chicken eggs. My neighbor once complained that the eggs was turning her white cakes orange. But these so-called free range eggs has a another tell tale sign of something not right they are too evenly color; otherwords, no variance between the eggs. Many are just while egg shells dyed brown like Easter eggs.
Here my eggs range from white to brown to blue/green depending on the hens. And even the none white eggs varies in color each day from the same hen. And I know mine are truly free ranged as they call it. THey are free to go anywhere on the property but they get corrected if they stray out of bounds.And boy they hate when they see me with the mop as they know I am going to clean up their act. I don't hurt them other than scare the heck out of them.
Hi AVB, Out here if you have chickens you will have foxes hanging around waiting for any opportunity. Not sure if you have foxes over there but I know you have problems with opossums
Too many Foxes here ,I snuck up on some in the yard then took a photo just before they all bolted off in different directions.
Always dead possums in my yard ,the fox kills more than it can eat and just leaves them to rot, same if you had chickens doesn't kill one or two for a meal ,Foxes will kill them all and probably eat one.
I think if I had my own Chickens I would tell the difference in the eggs AVB ,I have heard it's difficult to tell the difference especially if free range can just mean that the chicken had a small patch of grass for part of it's life .
Yep the scammers are finally getting arrested, I do remember many years ago getting the scammer messages sent to me when selling online, and there was nothing to stop them ,I'm still getting 3 scam messages as soon as I list an item for sale but now most are blocked from me responding to them on Gumtree and if they aren't blocked I push the report on Gumtree messaging and they are blocked that day.I think more should have been done earlier though.
These days Scammers can sextort young people and as a result a few young people have committed suicide but at least now the scammers go to jail no matter what country they are from ,a lot of the times the scammers don't even have what they say they have to extort people.
Yes Foxes are everywhere ,I remember seeing a news report from London where a fox entered a persons home and attacked a child.
You still hear about a wombat attack from time to time and a roo attack isn't that uncommon.If you are a tourist I hear you need to watch out for the drop bears in Australia ,apparently they like attacking tourists. , what animal doesn't attack you in Australia ,I went near a blue tongue lizard the other day and that was trying to take a bite out of me .
