[Brad Lockyer]

You may have received a fraudulent text message recently purporting to be from either toll road operator Transurban or its service provider Linkt, telling you of a debt you must pay to them.

Now Transurban is asking anybody who receives a text like this to report it to Linkt, and in exchange you’ll go into the draw to win some fantastic prizes including a fully electric Hyundai IONIQ 5 SUV and a $50 prepaid Mastercard.

Simon Moorfield, Transurban’s Group Executive for Customer and Technology, told Seniors Discount Club: “We understand that many people delete these messages, but by going the extra mile and reporting the scam to us online, you can help safeguard our community from future scams.”

Have you received a text asking you to pay an overdue road toll?

[Ms Leith]

Many times I get these on my mobile & forward them to SCAMwatch & go back to delete the scam text, if they come by email I 1st ‘block’, then click on ‘report phishing’ & forward ‘NEVER PUTTING ANYTHING IN THE SUBJECT LINE ON ANY FORWARDED EMAIL’ to [email protected] after that, go back to delete the spam email.

ACMA say when forwarding spam emails, NEVER write in subject line, it interferes with their tracking.

Woolworths scams I forward to [email protected] & [email protected]

PayPal scams I forward to [email protected] & [email protected]

I’ve rung Lowes, Costco, Aldi, IGA, they not only don’t have a reporting email, they were not the slightest bit interested in the pursuit of stopping scams, which appalled me, so I’ve ‘changed’ where I do my shopping because of that.

Everyone I’m in contact with I give them the 3 emails & 1 mobile contact to forward to.

The more people forwarding, the more chances authorities have following multiple links & of catching the mongrels.

[Cosmo]

Many of these companies could help reduce scams themselves by reducing the amount of personal information they collect on us and then archiving offline, non-active accounts. They demand our phone numbers but do they ever phone us; our street addresses but do they ever deliver, age; drivers licence number but do they ever provide a car? Woolworths is an example, I tried to change my email address for my customer card but they refused to change it if I didn’t provide my street address as well as my postal address. So they have been sending emails to a cancelled email address for the past five years and we don’t get bugged by their promotions.
A simple cheap way to reduce the scam texts is to buy a cheap 12 month SIM, put it in an old phone. When someone demands your phone number but you know they will never phone you, give them that number. I have many times more scam texts on my ‘reserve’ phone than my regular phone.

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