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Scam Awareness Thread (aussie.zone)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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With so many scams out there, especially now as we face the end of the financial year and the pinned "How to spot a tax scam" post being nearly a year old, I'm going to pin this thread as a place to share advice regarding scams or any new scams you might have noticed.

This isn't to say not to post scam related stuff in the main community but to create a place to keep track of scam related stuff which might get washed away over time.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Here's a handy PDF: https://www.accc.gov.au/about-us/publications/the-little-black-book-of-scams

Two tips I can think of are:

financial institutions never include links in emails. They ask you to search for their website and login there
Push back against any time pressure callers make. The police are never on their way during a call with the ATO. Stay calm and say you'll call them back. That's the last thing scammers want because you'll call the real ATO and the problem won't exist.

I've been thinking of something for more scam conscious people as well; you'd never say a lock can't be broken or some software can't be hacked, we should take the same approach and think we could be scammed at any time ourselves. It's not that we're immune to scams, it's that we haven't encountered one good enough to fool us yet

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Absolutely! Complacency is one of the worst vulnerablilities you can have