Phone scammers find new ways to trick Aussies
One in 10 Australians are being bombarded with an avalanche of nuisance calls from potential scammers, a new survey has found.
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One in 10 Australians are being bombarded with an avalanche of nuisance calls from potential scammers, a new survey has found.
If you get a phone call and the caller asks if you can hear her, what would you say? Most people would answer the question. But these kinds recorded calls are still making the rounds, targeting unsuspecting victims who don't know any better and give an answer. That's all the crooks want so they can later use a…
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4 sms in under 1 minute at rate of 2.5 euros
Unsafe Aug 31, 2017 00
2.5 per text and 28 sent in on day
Unsafe Aug 29, 2017 00
My phone was charged room this numbers.Want to stop it and refund my money back!
Unsafe Aug 19, 2017 00
Robbing banks is so yesterday..
57977, owned by txtnation ltd, which might be the same as
Txt Nation Ltd
15 Billacombe Road
Plymouth, PL9 7HX
England
paid hansomely with public money to text us reminders, and then sending scam texts aswell, seeing as how they have our details already? And from the minister to the poor slave at the coalface, it's no-one's fault. Modular. Each just does his own bit. Subcontract responsibility. It's well worth it. Sure, its not you're money, whaddya worried about. Get with the program. It's all too big to understand anyway. Grab what you can the whole thing's sinking. Sure it's who you know. Nations are past their sell-by-date. They're not comin' for you, yet, are they? Say notten, remember when you voted against the wedding cake and now you can't withdraw an egg for speeding fines you thicko. You're just paranoid. It's all great, really. 'scuse, .. knock on the door... Anto, fella here says he's a subcontractor...
Unsafe Aug 15, 2017 00
Got a text, containing a link to an alleged supervalu offer. I clicked the link, but was suspicious, and lucky not to go further, and so far my pay as you go credit is the same. I know I was lucky. I feel sorry for the poor victims of this awful scam. Someone's making a LOT of money outta this.
What bothers me, is that my phone has NO occurrences of my name. No registration, no social media, not even in the content of text messages does my name occur. Paranoid. No utilities, shops, NOBODY has this phone number and my name, except the Garda, and the DSP. I've never used or registered for the social cancer sites, twoface, instastab, or whatever. The sneaky text message opens with "hi name", with the correct name. How is this possible?
I suspect a public/private bunch of leeches that are subcontracted to the DSP, as I wanted to start a business a while ago and was referred to a social media with his head in the trough who's turning our public money into his private money with a crumb for yerself if ya play ball. He could have given a database away for profit or more likely through stupidity. I'm intrigued.
Have any other targets of this UK gang, txtnation ltd (handling NHS text reminders, apparently, hard to believe), dealt with an "enterprise centre" or subcontracted "trainer" affiliated with the (spits on the ground violently) chamber of commerce lately? Or are the Irish DSP using them?
Unsafe Aug 15, 2017 +10
Scam
Unsafe Jun 27, 2017 00
I am International student from the NUIG, am facing problem on my subscribed Tesco number, where erroneously I subscribed to something called VoucherPlus from the number 57977, and never realized till now that this number is deducting about 7.50 euro from my mobile balance every week, and this doesn't seem to stop or unsubscribe. Only just today I found out that this was a spam number and that lots of people have faced similar problems from it.
Please avoid anything from this number.
Thanking you,
Regards,
Harshad
Unsafe Jun 06, 2017 +10
Reverse charge messages every day from this number
Unsafe May 23, 2017 00
Scam.taking 2.5o per text they send u
Nuisance May 11, 2017 00
Total Scam 10 euro taken within seconds
Unsafe May 09, 2017 00
Dreadful scam tesco competition
Neutral May 05, 2017 00
i dont want it!!!!
Nuisance May 04, 2017 00