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Old 05-12-2019, 04:27 PM
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Never seen this One

Never seen this One before .... received this about 10mins ago.

I ' Googled ' Northland .. and that is in New Zealand.

Apparently I've been shopping at Bunnings in Northland NZ.

I rang my Bank... there are no purchases on my Card at all.

Told me to leave it alone and get rid of the message ...a new scam about.

Anyone seen or had this done to them.....gee there are some ' low life's ' out there ...get a job and earn your own money.

Bank also said ...it could be a scam for identity theft.

Col....
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Old 05-12-2019, 04:33 PM
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Hi Col, Possibly no biggie. At the registers of Bunnings, one can input a mobile number to recieve a receipt by sms.

It's possible either someone inputted the wrong number (yours), or the Bunning backend stuffed up and placed a +61 (Australia country code) in front of a valid NZ mobile number which the customer did input correctly.

Hopefully if the above is true, your mind can be at ease.
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Old 05-12-2019, 05:19 PM
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Hi Col, Possibly no biggie. At the registers of Bunnings, one can input a mobile number to recieve a receipt by sms.

It's possible either someone inputted the wrong number (yours), or the Bunning backend stuffed up and placed a +61 (Australia country code) in front of a valid NZ mobile number which the customer did input correctly.

Hopefully if the above is true, your mind can be at ease.
Yes ...that could be the case Andy ...those sorts of things can happen.
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Old 05-12-2019, 07:33 PM
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Thanks for the lawn fertilizer Col I'm just hoping it will rain this weekend .
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Old 05-12-2019, 07:54 PM
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Bunnings Northland is in Victoria.
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Old 05-12-2019, 08:01 PM
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Bunnings Northland is in Victoria.
Well Well .... I googled ' where is Northland ' ...came up with NZ
Could be Victoria then ....who knows...
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Old 05-12-2019, 08:37 PM
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https://www.bunnings.com.au/stores/vic/northland
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Old 06-12-2019, 01:35 PM
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Thanks George ...that will be it then.
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Old 06-12-2019, 02:39 PM
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Bunnings sometimes offers to sms receipts on purchase so I reckon that someone just put in a random phone number to sms the receipt to and it happened to be yours
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Old 06-12-2019, 02:45 PM
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A random phone number Col and it was yours, that's like picking 10 straight numbers for tatts lotto Col. maybe you should buy a ticket mate, and if you win I'll have half for the suggestion

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Old 06-12-2019, 05:11 PM
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[QUOTE=leon;. maybe you should buy a ticket mate, and if you win I'll have half for the suggestion

Leon[/QUOTE]

I bought an OzzLotto ticket today ...if you guys don't hear from me ever again ...you know I scored BIG TIME
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Old 06-12-2019, 05:45 PM
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by the way what was it you "bought"
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Old 07-12-2019, 01:57 AM
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Bank also said ...it could be a scam for identity theft.

Best way to tell would be to see the underlying hyperlink on the link provided... I suspect that the link you are seeing is not the link it goes to.


For example, the following link is actually to google even though it looks like it goes to "thisisnotgoogle.com" https://www.thisisnotgoogle.com


If you hover over the link, you'll see the underlying hyperlink on the bottom left of your screen (in Firefox / ISS, may be in different locations depending on browser and website).
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Old 07-12-2019, 10:02 AM
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by the way what was it you "bought"
Nick .... I deleted the ' link ' ....didn't clink on it.
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