PSA: this is not medicare, if you get this message just ignore and delete. I get quite a few spam/scam texts, but I figured I’d put this here because this one is impersonating medicare.
Remember, they wouldn’t send you a link to click, and always read the URL. It’s always going to be something that’s dodgy.
Got this exact one a few days ago. And a call from Thailand. And of course, my tolls are once again unpaid. I really feel sorry for older people. The scam situation is out of control.
The toll one is odd, I never got that particular one until I made a rare and very short trip (like one junction) on Eastlink a couple of weeks ago. I’ve had five scam texts since then. If you go on the Eastlink website there’s a big red ‘priority alert’ warning at the top of the page, so they’re obviously aware of it, but it seems to me that their system is compromised somehow.
I got a scam toll text that actually got past the spam filter recently. I checked my account through the proper means and found out Linkt had been charging me a manual lookup fee because my e-tag hasn’t been working. This has been going on for years.
And you wonder why they choose toll payments as their scam
PSA: this is not medicare, if you get this message just ignore and delete. I get quite a few spam/scam texts, but I figured I’d put this here because this one is impersonating medicare.
Remember, they wouldn’t send you a link to click, and always read the URL. It’s always going to be something that’s dodgy.
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I get those too
Does medicare even send messages sat 2am?
Highly doubtful. I did get a COViD confirmation at a similar stupid time, but that was full lockdown etc.
Got this exact one a few days ago. And a call from Thailand. And of course, my tolls are once again unpaid. I really feel sorry for older people. The scam situation is out of control.
Lol! My partner got the toll one last night - we don’t own a car nor drive 😂
I also feel bad for the oldies, it’s fucked how many of these texts are sent
The toll ones are especially funny in Perth - there are no toll roads in WA. 😃
The toll one is odd, I never got that particular one until I made a rare and very short trip (like one junction) on Eastlink a couple of weeks ago. I’ve had five scam texts since then. If you go on the Eastlink website there’s a big red ‘priority alert’ warning at the top of the page, so they’re obviously aware of it, but it seems to me that their system is compromised somehow.
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Whoa Baku! You’re a good egg! I had no idea about any of this, thank you!
Is that the same Tencent that owns all those gaming publishers/devs/IPs‽
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I got a scam toll text that actually got past the spam filter recently. I checked my account through the proper means and found out Linkt had been charging me a manual lookup fee because my e-tag hasn’t been working. This has been going on for years.
And you wonder why they choose toll payments as their scam
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