For the past three or four yearsI am accused about every 6 or 7 months of parking a Toyota illegally in Detroit. I have never owned a Toyota. They want me to come down to the courthouse , from Flint, and prove that it is not my car. The license plate number is not even similar to anything I have ever owned.
In reply to pilotbraden :
Reminds me of
In a nutshell, due to a software error, a privatized contractor mistakenly assigned all plateless cars in their system to this one person, so he gets many tickets in the mail for vehicles that are obviously not his. Because they're a private company, they can't be arsed to fix the problem because they get paid either way.
They did, however, attempt to change all of the incorrect cars in their system to his, so he'd be responsible for them...
Just got this text. Looks legit, right?
I've received about three of these in the last week. They seem to be getting increasingly aggressive in their wording.
David S. Wallens said:Just got this text. Looks legit, right?
Hey I got one too
Why don't I just send in for both of us then you can just pay me the next time I see you?
I got an ez-pass one today! Nevermind the only time I use ez-pass is on my family trips to NY on I95 and Im still back in Florida and I have no control over the account.
I've been getting them a lot lately. Never had any ex-pass, Peach pass or other pass ever, so easy to tell a scam.
My boyfriend got one of these for the first time a few weeks ago after we had just driven on a toll road and thought it was real. As he opened his phone and said, 'Great, I thought my SunPass was working,' I looked over his shoulder at his phone as he was about to click the link, and I instantly yelled, 'NO,' snatching the phone from his hand. It was so automatic that my brain seemed to buffer as we both sat there processing why I just yelled and snatched his phone like I was in an action movie and just stopped him from destroying the world haha.
Any text I get with a link in it I assume is a scam and I delete it and block the number... I rarely even waste the time to actually read the message, so I may or may not have received any of these texts since I've had PA EZ-Pass for over 25 years. I used to occasionally get "EZ-Pass not recorded" bills from NJ, but since NJ and PA have better integrated their EZ pass systems, it can now charge m account via the vehicle plate vs. the transponder.
If you dig through your township/municipality ordinances website, you can probably find the official yellow light hold-time. I did that 20+ years ago when I got caught for a red light light that seemed to have a really short yellow. Ended up not fighting it since the prosecutor offered a "no points" ticket for the same fine. Here in PA, most folks don't give a crap about the fine - they just don't want the points. Local communities generally don't care about the points, they just want the money for the least effort possible.
In reply to Ian F (Forum Supporter) :
The big thing nowadays, and why so many of these scams work, is because text alerts are so common. Some people have them for their banks, Amazon, etc. I had to do cybersecurity training while working at an airport, and you'd be surprised at the lengths some scammers go to in order to make things look as real as possible. I just make it a general rule of thumb to never open links, even from official sources, because you never know what kind of back links could be embedded in them.
Real alerts come from 5 or 6 digit numbers.
When they figure out how to spoof those will be when the real crap starts.
They finally sent me one of these texts today. I strongly considered sending back a dick pic (not my own, but the one of the guy, on the edge of the bed....iykyk) but the area code suggested I might incur charges I didn't want for that reply. Shame really.
In reply to Paris Van Gorder :
My company is constantly doing cyber security training... and since I also have a laptop from one of our clients, I get to do their training as well... yippee... The best are the painfully obvious phishing email tests they both send out. If there was a good use of AI, it might be setting up a system that generates tests tailored to the recipient. It's not much of a test when the email content has no relation whatsoever to one's job.
Mndsm said:They finally sent me one of these texts today. I strongly considered sending back a dick pic (not my own, but the one of the guy, on the edge of the bed....iykyk) but the area code suggested I might incur charges I didn't want for that reply. Shame really.
More than likely the number was spoofed to begin with, so some innocent bystander would be getting the text.
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