Our Medicare system is being milked for all it's worth by some unscrupulous medical practitioners. I've made it a habit to always look up my my.gov.au account to see how much is charged even though I pay for each consultation out of my own pocket except for the ones by telephone.
I wished everyone would check their my.gov.au account regularly because the system is wide open to abuse. So imagine my surprise when I received the above email just after I had spoken to my GP by phone to request a repeat prescription. "Finally," I thought, "the government is keeping the doctors honest by telling us whenever they charge our Medicare account."
The sender's email address was a very convincing "no-reply@my.gov.au"; however, instead of clicking on the link shown in the email, I went straight to my my.gov.au account to find - nothing! NOTHING? What's going on?
Going back to the email, I placed the cursor over the sender's email address, and lo and behold, the REAL sender of this email was hamra-rent-cars.tn, suggesting some scumbag in Tunesia was up to no good.
You really can't be too careful these days! If you do get an email which you are not sure about, DON'T CLICK ON ANY LINK but place your cursor over the sender's email address and all shall be revealed. And should you happen to be on holidays in Tunesia, don't hire a car at Hamra Rent Cars!!!
P.S. Hamra is Arabic and means "the red one" (hence the Alhambra in Granada in Spain), but in this context might as well mean "plenty of RED flags" because the ownership of the domain name is equally obscure:
