Weiters scammed

[DJC]

Thats a different discussion, and you are deflecting now.  Moral of my story is that you can call up and verify information and not get too many delays which was the entire point. 

I recently spoke to someone at the ATO and it only took two phone calls over two days.  However, the ATO actively discourages telephone inquiries and pushes you to online correspondence.  The ATO owes me $40 and it’s really not worth my time to pursue it.  The same with my ABN, I don’t really need it and it wasn’t worth the effort to stop the process.  The crux of the matter is that the ATO relied on an anonymous text message rather than a formal letter to my business address.

The scammers who ripped Weiters off timed it perfectly and used different forms of communication to simulate bank processes.  It is a very common and quite successful scam and I heard a caller to the ABC describe how she was nearly snared by the same trap.  She is an accountant but was taken in by official-looking correspondence and “verification” phone calls.  When she realised that it was a scam and didn’t transfer funds, she copped an earful of abuse from the scammer ?