love to get traffic violation notices from a clearly foreign phone number and also I don’t own a car - ThreadSky

mikedrucker.bsky.social • 20 days ago

love to get traffic violation notices from a clearly foreign phone number and also I don’t own a car

setting aside everything else obviously-fake about this scam text, “this matter may be reported to the DMV” is one of the least-intimidating threats ever made

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jendelpozzo.bsky.social•19 days ago

Did you try calling the “phone number”?

bwalla.bsky.social•20 days ago

I got one from @icloud.com this morning.

bensmom33.bsky.social•20 days ago

My son got this the other day. He is 13.

glj333.bsky.social•20 days ago

I got this one too (and live in a state with no toll roads), and I’ve seen multiple reports of the same text on here and Reddit. Quite the reach on this scam!

danielleradford.bsky.social•20 days ago

This happened to me twice last week

I have never had a driver’s license

jaegerx7.bsky.social•20 days ago

I do have a license and a car and I’ve gotten so many of these texts over the past month or two, but the nearest toll road to me is like 500+ miles away 🙃

macabrellian.bsky.social•20 days ago

SAME!! I've never once owned a car, much less driven, but these clowns keep trying to get me with this shit.

becauseivy.bsky.social•20 days ago

i've been getting "hey dad this is my new number"

nickjcal.bsky.social•20 days ago

That's funny. I've gotten some of those too and we don't even have those things in Kansas City lol.

brianka.bsky.social•20 days ago

This reminds me of a text message my mom received from the “IRS” recently, and the sender managed to misspell the words “internal”, “revenue” and “service” in the same text message.

Very official.

obviouswins.com•20 days ago

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davidsp72.bsky.social•20 days ago

I get one of these almost every day now. I last owned a car in 2004.

surlygrrrl.bsky.social•20 days ago

I get these & I don’t even have a license, much less a vehicle.

marontheweb.bsky.social•20 days ago

I got that today too!

extentofthejam.bsky.social•20 days ago

There’re a bunch of different Hotmail accounts that send me bridge toll violations.

jewelcoatfish.bsky.social•20 days ago

I just got one from an iCloud account

amberlink.bsky.social•18 days ago

I got one of these and wondered why the hell they're spelling "ur" in a "text" (who the hell sends a text to a random series of phone numbers?) demanding payment for something that makes no sense?

Do people actually fall for this shit?

jawalker64.bsky.social•20 days ago

Yeah, those scammers are out there in full force.

cjmelendez.bsky.social•20 days ago

I've gotten about 5 of these this year

buckskinmanatee.bsky.social•20 days ago

I just paid those guys off

mojofroyo.bsky.social•20 days ago

I've had 5 this week; 2 on personal phone and 3 on my work cell!

mspappi.bsky.social•20 days ago

I've been ignoring the legit snail mail about updating my credit card on my toll account for over a decade. It makes me laugh that they think I'd respond to this.

drstrangepork.bsky.social•20 days ago

I have urgent information about your car's warranty...

overtim.bsky.social•20 days ago

I got one of these that said the fee was $2.99, the late fee was $1.99, for a grand total of $3.99.

itsfullofstars.bsky.social•20 days ago

“You America car is violate America legals please to pay moneys or become jail.”

solomonhinton.bsky.social•20 days ago

Got 3 of these within the past month

fanciestofcats.bsky.social•20 days ago

They saw your thicc dump truck and ticketed you for walking under the influence of being sexy

robjrii.bsky.social•20 days ago

My partner and I have gotten three of these in the past two days between us. I don’t get this. I mean, I know why we aren’t allowed to have universal healthcare or a living wage or what have you, but who is the monied constituency against making all forms of communication effectively useless?

thecryptrocket.bsky.social•20 days ago

I have received two of these today. The smart ass side of my brain wants to reply, but the not dumb side says to avoid. And yet, my desire to respond with the lyrics to Troll Toll from Always Sunny continues.

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