the sms were from unknow sources.
Once I sent them to abuse@telstra.com, things have improved.
thanks for the link to the government site too! I shall add them to my list of recipients for the next scam email
From Kmart today …
Dear Customer,
Congratulations! We have chosen 150 Australian consumers to
participate in a brief survey of Kmart Australia. All participants
will receive (1) optional reward. Choose between iPhone 14 Pro, Samsung Galaxy S22 , Samsung QLED 4K Smart TV and
much more.
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Remember: 150 randomly selected users received this invitation and the number of gift is limited.
So hurry up!
Amelia,
Customer support
Note: this post has been edited to remove embedded links to the promotion and a hidden link at the end. As advice to anyone posting details of potential scam emails or SMS please ensure any links are removed or edited to ensure they are not able to be unintentionally followed. @mark_m Community Moderator.
Hello Phil T
No they weren’t from Telstra.
I am a Telstra customer that’s why when we see adverts on TV suggesting that they are protecting us, I wonder what they are actually doing!
This is another received today. I have included it as it has an Australian phone number +61 8 6102 5212 which hopefully others will search to realise that it is a scam.
Are you working with a real McAfee communications or responding to scammers pretending to be McAfee? You can tell by the email addresses and embedded URL links. My punt is you are seeing scams. If you think otherwise would you post the originating and reply to email addresses as well as the linked URLs (if any)?
Topic note: I tidied up an older McAfee and Norton Scams topic to remove extraneous back and forth and merged it into this more recent topic to make it more comprehensive of scams purporting to be from McAfee or Norton.
Yes I hear you. McAfee insists on sending me multiple ‘Last reminder’ emails every day. I only wish it were - the last reminder that is. Of course these are scams, the emails are not even from McAfee even though the body of them looks as though it could be. Thing is I do not have McAfee product!
I have started receiving Norton & McAfee renewal notices piggybacking on what appears to be a genuine Supercheap Auto sales email.
The address etc is from Supercheap, so it may get past spam filters. The subject is changed to something like “Without Norton, You are unprotected”. Under the Supercheap sale image, is another image of Norton with dire warnings - your computer has 21 viruses detected, renew today … etc. The link goes to a scam website, nothing to do with Norton. All reported to Scamwatch.
Since when has “not being allowed” ever stopped a scammer? That is the point. None of these emails are really from McAfee. I don’t even have McAfee security products on my devices. And I have had another 4 today!
