Another day, another scam... but as it's tax time, I could see people falling for it.

Even one person is too many, so I wrote about MyGov scams and how to spot them.

Education in this is important, because so many of these scams work on the premise that people panic and click.

#scam #australia #MyGov
https://alexreviewstech.com/please-dont-fall-for-this-mygov-scam/

‘You have a new message in your myGov Inbox.’

Just what I want to hear on a Friday afternoon 😬

#myGov

The correct answer here is Yes, this is bad.

While I understand no one wants a Bobby Drop Tables situation, you handle this at the server side of the equation. You encode the character so that your DB system doesn't mistake it for a string delimiter.

Sigh.

#webshit101 #mygov #headdesk :thisisfine:

I Would like to thanks Government of India All Ministry
#MyGov

Thank you for giving me this award
#MyGov

Thanks for this award
#MyGov

मुझे #MyGov के CEO Shri Akash Tripathi Ji के द्वारा Certificate प्राप्त हुआ!!
इसके लिए बहुत बहुत धन्यवाद!!
#MyGov

Definitely an email where you DON'T want to click that link, which will take you to https://email.mail1.onesignal.os.tc/....

#Scam #Phishing #IDTheft #Security #MyGov

@caity there is a news story on channel 9.
It appears that a number of #MyGov accounts are available for sale on the dark Web.

Some of the accounts are very recent.

Anyone got any details on the #MyGov hack?

Not that anyone need care, but nevertheless, FYI ~

The new MyGov account also started looping through credentials and back to the start when I later tried to log back in.

This proved that the old account was ok, and the issue was - is - that my.gov.au doesn't accept auto-typed or even pasted credentials.

I've struck this before on some pissant website that wouldn't accept auto-typing from a password safe. Not even via copy/paste for each credential.

Upshot: I had to weaken my MyGov password so I can manually type the bloody thing in.

ffs

#MyGov #password #security #websitedesign

Is it normal for the Australian MyGov website to send you through the login circle (name/password/2FA) several dozen times until you give up, or is it just fucked as usual?

#MyGov #HumanService #Centrelink

Just realised #myGov app has allowed for #Medicare card to be added to its wallet (updated yesterday).

This is a recommendation from the #MyGov user audit review:
"Ensure myGov leaves no one behind and upholds Australians’ human rights"

I believe that means every #Australian should have a #network connection, and that the people who can't afford one should be given it for free. In fact, finding out who can/can't afford it could be more expensive than just giving out (pedestrian quality) connections for free to all.

Lets force all #telco companies to deliver basic networking services for free to all Australians wherever the infrastructure is already-built. Let's force satellite operators to do the same for the other places.

Every person without a net connection is "left behind". We did it for landline phones, of course we can do it for (zero cost of additional nodes, remember) #Internet.

https://my.gov.au/content/dam/mygov/documents/audit/mygov-useraudit-jan2023-report-summary.pdf

Beware of #scam emails supposedly from #MyGov saying that they notice you have started a claim but it hasn’t completed properly and giving a number of links to click. It is NOT from #MyGov.

Bill Shorten’s ‘funny’ Valentine https://www.crikey.com.au/2023/02/15/bill-shorten-valentines-day-social-media-posts/ #Valentine'sDay #BillShorten #words_600 #Politics #Humour #auspol #mygov

#scams #sms #myGov Here we go again scummy scammers sending an SMS to tell me my $7,500 refund is on hold. To get this imaginary money all I need to do is go to https://myrefund.com or something similar. There should be an option on iOS to flag these as scams that populate some database. Perhaps there is!

What if #Australia is wisening to the CloudFlare menace?

We were looking into a #myGov scam and found this topic at #CHOICE Consumer Advocate forums:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230211145006/https://choice.community/t/security-of-web-connections-used-for-banking/28916/

Its a fair summary of the state of retail #banking.

Immediately however, the topic was closed. We thought CHOICE had integrity, given that last year they exposed major retailers engaging in #massSurveillance using #facialRecognition cameras.

Seems not?

A time to start #WatchingTheWatchdog, perhaps?

@stilgherrian
I have an apostrophe in my middle name but very few computer systems will accept it as a valid character in a name field.
It pisses me off that I have to deliberately misspell my name before some govt website will accept the spelling.
As a result I go through hours of nonsense every time I need to deal with govt systems.
You have my sympathy!

#mygov #ato #medicare #centrelink

MyGov Lacks Proper Funding, Review Finds #itnews #myGov http://mwyr.es/3JrJfLF