Telstra

Customers of Australian telco Telstra are again being targeted via a fake bill notification email. 

Last week, I got a dozen or more scam calls, all of which falsely claimed to be from Australian telecommunications company Telstra. 

This email, which purports to be from Australian telecommunications company Telstra, claims that you can click a button to redeem a gift card valued at $500.

Scammers are again targeting customers of Australian telecommunications giant Telstra. People have reported receiving a Telstra branded email claiming that a recent direct debit payment was unsuccessful.

According to this email, your BigPond.com email address is getting an upgrade within the coming weeks. The email, which purports to be from “Telstra Broadband Support”, claims that you can click a link and re-login to your account if you wish to upgrade immediately.

Recently,  I received yet another scam phone call claiming that my Internet service was about to be disconnected because my computer was sending out viruses.  The call was supposedly from Australian telecommunications giant Telstra. 

According to this email, which purports to be from Australian telecommunications giant Telstra, your account payment method has expired. 

Message purporting to be from Australian internet service provider Bigpond claims that you must upgrade your account before you lose “all history access”.

People continue to receive scam phone calls claiming to be from the technical department of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) such as Telstra.

This report was first published in November 2005. A would-be warning, which has been circulating since at least 2005, claims that scammers…