I received a txt about paying an overdue toll and there's no toll roads in Christchurch. They're after your credit card details so
Watch out!
Nzta phishing scam beware!
Bargainstalker on 28/04/2023 - 14:02
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Had the same this morning from a +61 number. Hopefully enough people are reporting them as Spam. I'm sure someone will fall for it
Got it few weeks back. Another give away is AU number. Why would nzta message from Australia.
Yep, also Corrections, IRD, random delivery companies, Paypal, and much more. Not just from AU mobiles, but I suspect the spammers/phishers have found a nice loose telco/MVNO in AU that allows them to abuse their network, and since sending SMS's to NZ is so easy (and our telcos seem to have been better recently with security and spam blocking) it's easier to send from there.
Sadly reporting them to a NZ telco probably won't achieve much. Best response is to report them to ACMA, but I'm usually too lazy and just hit "block".
I send a quick message to my mum if i recieve them, never know when oldies might have a moment and believe it.
My mum fell for a scam a few weeks ago. Someone was selling ebikes on Facebook for a few dollars each. She "bought" one bike so the damage was minimal but we had to cancel her card and there was a lot of hassle getting it reissued, reinstating regular payments etc. Probably a timely wakeup call for her - if it seems even slightly suspicious, don't click on it!
Yep and set up a virtual card that can be cancelled to avoid the issues you mentioned.
Yes, the Wise virtual cards are brilliant
Be cool if we could add a tab up top (separate from forums) just solely on ‘scams’. Only reason I am suggesting this is that scams really are becoming so prevalent and unfortunately they can even be presented as competitions. So awful how people want to try to prey on others in these times. 😒
I actually did need to pay for the toll road when heading up north. I got the text a few days after paying though. I also got another text last night saying my payment will be overdue tomorrow.
Scamming still a problem though! Just in general…
Yes. It's more like who doesn't get a scam email, text, call on the daily…….
I'm half joking but it's almost at the stage where I find the incessant warnings as annoying as the scams themselves!The warnings are far better than being scammed, imo…
Its my first phishing txt and have had no email ones. Thought it was a mistake of nzta, only when I got onto the website to sort it with and saw the warning did I know. So I'm happy with the warnings
I also received the txt, but having used the toll road recently, I didn't even think twice. Only once I clicked the link, I got suspicious and closed the webpage. So I can understand how people get caught.
Yep exactly! Even if ppl are getting sick of the constant warnings, they are better than actually getting scammed!
Sorry, just realised I am kinda trolling this scamming thread! Lol. But I just feel so strongly about it. These bastards need to be exposed, so I am all for the warnings being shared around! Exposing the scams and ensuring more and more people are made aware of the scams as they arise is the only way we can hurt these losers who scam for a living 🤬
Cheeky buggers followed up with another text saying something like "your payment method failed, please enter your card details using this link"
Say your card isn't working and can you do a bank deposit. Get their bank details, highly doubt it will work but wouldn't it be great?
😅😂👍
Hey folks.
I got bored and it turns out that the form fully accepts the testing cc numbers on paypal so (ive never used these before) I thought it was weird that a person I know was actually charged $2.40 then their bank paused the card… so it must still go through to success on declined transactions? … wait to verify I guess?
Weirdly, the website doesn't send a single POST request, it just does GET requests with your cc number in plaintext as a url param. Here's an example with randomly generated cardno, names, exp date, cvv etc
https://scamdomain/h5/card/updateF?actionStatus=4&cardUsername=J%20Farley&cardNo=5389473827911745&cardDate=07/26&cardCvv=245&contactEmail=visa&contactInfo=credit&contactTel=Infinite
Got bored, sent a few thousand requests with randomly generated details, they will probably just filter by ip or something but hopefully not and it means that less people get scammed.
Clicks your link, loses life savings to your scam 😭😭
Seriously though, good on you! Anything to slow that scum down.
That’s just one of many scams doing the rounds. I got that one last week.
There’s also plenty of fake banking ones, NZ Post, Norton, Amazon etc.
The real giveaway is that none of them address you by name (or use an email address instead in their introduction) and simply ask you to click on a link.
Just delete them.