Bank Scams

Here is a new one to me, AGL an Australian Energy Company advising me of paperless billing!!!!  Its asking me to click on a link to view my bill 469 aussie dollars  Have sent a copy with email address to the Company

The reply I had from AGL Energy (via Facebook)

appreciate you getting in touch to report this. We are aware of a number of emails circulating currently - more on this here:http://bit.ly/AGLemailScamInfo. We advise that you do not interact further with the email and delete this from your mail server. Let us know if you have any further questions. ~Roshni

The thing is, that these scams can work sometimes. A while ago I read about a young woman who was complaining bitterly that PayPal were charging her for something that she hadn't bought. When investigated more closely it emerged that she had responded to a scam Email which asked her to log in and verify something - thus her login details were captured. She had some difficulty in understanding her own gullibility and continued to blame PayPal. Another gentleman in his 70s fell for the Microsoft calling, "We see you have problems which we'll fix for a price" scam. Not just once but twice he paid, having to take his computer in for repair to rectify corruption each time, and of course his security data had by then been skimmed.