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[–] 1 point 1 year ago

I've gotten that same text before, despite never, ever having driven on a toll road in my life. It's a scam.

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  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Never respond to these, even just to tell them to go fuck themselves. It only confirms to them that the message is reaching someone, encouraging them to keep your number on their list.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I love how they didn’t bother to get a plausible domain.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    legit looks like a text cc scam

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Got one of these the other day. Given I've never driven in my life and don't even have a drivers license I found it quite humorous.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    if you don't pay they send this guy

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I got mail the other day from Florida saying I havent paid a toll "I" ran in 2022 saying they'll suspend my license. I moved out of Florida in 2021, and hadnt been in that part of Florida for years before that. That said... Not sure they can suspend a license being that my license is from another state. Florida license is long gone. I should probably call the Florida highway saftey but I also kind of just don't want to ever go back to Florida and forget about it

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I get these too and I haven’t been through a toll lane (in my car) for over two years. I’d be much more susceptible if this was mail and not a text.

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    [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Damn Loch Ness monster doubled his prices

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    You gotta pay the troll toll

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Wait, Android lets the link be clickable? Wow that’s bad.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Why wouldn't links in messages be clickable? (This is a scam and you obviously shouldn't actually click it, but still)

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Anything not in your contact list has no business sending clickable links pretty much. That’s why scammers started asking the scammees to reply to the message and reopen them, because it cut off a significant portion of people falling for scams.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's a legitimate security benefit, fair enough.

    I do get actual businesses sending me SMS notifications with links, and they aren't in my contacts either, but it's a valid decision for Apple to have made in terms of weighing off reducing scams vs creating inconvenience when genuine messages aren't clickable.

    On a personal level I'm happy for everything to be clickable on my phone, because I trust myself to be cautious about scams and think carefully about the legitimacy of a message before I click anything.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Is this not true on iPhone? I'm pretty sure it is because my wife got basically this exact text a few months ago, which timed perfectly with us paying off some violations because we didn't realize it didn't get refilled. Perfect storm for her to believe it... Anyway, she got it and clicked it fine. Thankfully, it goes to a site that wanted you to put in more info, and at that point, she asked me, and I stopped her. Then I pointed out all the reasons it was fake, lol.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    No, at least not in the past few iOS versions. Links show up like this which is why scammers say to reply then reopen it, because it will show as a link then.

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