Anyone want $4ooo from the ATO - scam think so ??!!!!!!

**dimmock family** · 03-09-2010, 10:38 AM

I have been off work sick today and could not believe my ears when I got a call (3) from the "australian Tax Office" stating I had a "grant" eligible for $4000, of course being english and understandably dubious I asked what it concerned. The guy (who frankly had such a poor command of the English language that defied stupidity) explained (albeit moronically) that he was from the ATO (like really!) and that I had a grant for $4000 (oooooooh! no s**t sherlock!), and I should go to a local aussie post office with (wait for it) $200 and my drivers license and passport (photocopied) and I would be given a postal number if I called him ..... frankly the storey becomes so weird at this point, that I felt the need to return bull***t and I claimed to be an Australian Federal Cop working in fraud (strangely) working in the ATO (WTF) yet he still felt the need to claim credibility...... well after much laughing (mainly at him by me) he conceded the deceit by ..... wait for it....poo pooing my credibility and feeling entirely childish he said .....prove it then (NAAAAAAAAH) ..the following silence was enough to state my victory over stupidity !!! long live the Poms!!!!! Hazzzzzzzar!

**Noodle** · 03-09-2010, 10:42 AM

You need to report it. Yep, there are still people out there that think we were born yesterday! lol x

**dimmock family** · 03-09-2010, 10:48 AM

I did report it to the ATO who said they would investigate it and that this type of fraud is common this time of year (post tax return)...... I thought everyone else needed to know ..... !!!!!!

**Tim** · 03-09-2010, 12:01 PM

You did the right thing for the 99 who know its a scam there the one that believes it. I once had a vicar from Nigeria call me at work wanting some rope..cut a long story short.. its turned into an office joke keeping this guy stringing along.. the crux was having to use his shipping company in Nigeria.......

**KIRK AND CO** · 04-09-2010, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by Tim

You did the right thing for the 99 who know its a scam there the one that believes it. I once had a vicar from Nigeria call me at work wanting some rope..cut a long story short.. its turned into an office joke keeping this guy stringing along.. the crux was having to use his shipping company in Nigeria.......

So it was a scam so does this mean I have to give the $ 4000 back he gave me ????

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