I heard that new federal rules were initiated effective last December regarding this. Apparently telcos MUST make every effort to prevent phone or email scams getting to their customers.
But I have NOT seen any evidence of this yet. It’s like petrol companies failing to purify the fuel they sell. Even though it causes customer’s cars to fail. > On 30 May 2022, at 6:44 pm, Daniel Kerr <wa...@macwizardry.com.au> wrote: > > Yes unfortunately spam etc is on the increase at the moment. I’m averaging > around 100+ a day currently across all my email accounts. > And even if you create rules to try and handle it,…they just change it. (I > already have a large amount of rules in place that pick up a lot, and does > help a little). > Even funnier (if you can say that), is that I get spam to a gmail account I > have set up - and I never use this account, and have never used it anywhere > or given it out to anyone,…and yet the only thing it gets,..is spam! So much > so that I actually disable that account to check regularly. I just log in and > delete everything. > > The world would be a better place if we could all the scammers and spammers > doing things productive! Would certainly save the $500+ million that > Australians lose most years to spam/scams. > > Kind regards > Daniel > > Sent from my iPhone 12 Pro > > --- > Daniel Kerr > MacWizardry > > p : 0414 795 960 > e : <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> > w : <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> > > > **For everything Apple** > > NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and > as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of MacWizardry. > Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of warranty or > accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any information in this > email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, that permission by the > author be requested. > >> On 30 May 2022, at 6:36 pm, Anthony (Tony) Francis <antne...@mac.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks Daniel >> >> We have been deleting them but they just keep coming, recognised easily >> enough by the English not being correct. >> >> Kind Regards >> >> Tony >> >>> On 30 May 2022, at 18:30, Daniel Kerr <wa...@macwizardry.com.au> wrote: >>> >>> Yes, it’s a scam doing the rounds,…trying to get you to pay for something >>> you never had in the first place,…and/or get credit card details off you. >>> (The charge anything and everything under the sun to your card,…) :) >>> Like any spam,…can just be deleted and ignored. >>> >>> Kind regards >>> Daniel >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone 12 Pro >>> >>> --- >>> Daniel Kerr >>> MacWizardry >>> >>> p : 0414 795 960 >>> e : <daniel AT macwizardry.com.au> >>> w : <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> >>> >>> >>> **For everything Apple** >>> >>> NOTE: Any information provided in this email may be my personal opinion and >>> as such should be taken accordingly, and may not be the views of >>> MacWizardry. Any information provided does not offer or warrant any form of >>> warranty or accept liability. It would be appreciated that if any >>> information in this email is to be disseminated, distributed or copied, >>> that permission by the author be requested. >>> >>>> On 30 May 2022, at 5:40 pm, Anthony (Tony) Francis <antne...@mac.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello to one and all >>>> >>>> My Wife and I keep receiving e-mails from mcafee and Norton notifying us >>>> that our subscription has expired, are any of our members having this >>>> problem? >>>> >>>> Thanks all >>>> >>>> Tony >>>> >>>> Boddington. >>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >>> >>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>> Settings & Unsubscribe - >>> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Settings & Unsubscribe - >> <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Settings & Unsubscribe - > <http://lists.wamug.org.au/listinfo/wamug.org.au-wamug> Regards Stephen Chape Mac by choice Windows because my employer knew no better
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