Scam traffic infringement notices spread malware: Alert Priority High
kiwijims said
01:03 PM Feb 22, 2015
A wave of spam emails claiming to be traffic infringement notices has been targeting Australians. The email includes links that direct a recipient to a website which attempts to both scam the recipient and infect their computer with malware.
Stay Smart Online is aware of some recipients being infected with ransomware from infringement notice spam. Ransomware such as Cryptolocker is a particularly malicious form of malware which has been distributed by spam targeting Australians in the past. Recent examples include fake emails purportedly from Australia Postand Energy Australia.
Traffic infringement notices have become a common approach used by scammers as they are likely to alarm a recipient into a reactive response to click the link.
If you receive such an email, do not respond or click links. You should evaluate it as spam and delete it.
All infringement Notices are sent by Post mail not by email.
K.J.
-- Edited by kiwijims on Sunday 22nd of February 2015 01:18:46 PM
-- Edited by kiwijims on Sunday 22nd of February 2015 01:32:30 PM
Aus-Kiwi said
10:29 PM Feb 28, 2015
I have a few notices sent to me about driving infringement .. I was never in both areas and asked for more info..
They take front on pics and if you say it wasn't you .. They hit you with $600+ fine ...
So ask for there proof .. Then say going by pics it isn't you...
kiwijims said
03:54 AM Mar 1, 2015
A Mate of mine owned an American caddy which he imported after a trip to the States,
A short while after it landed here in Perth, he received a speeding fine stating he was pictured doing xxx KPH in some town in NORTH QUEENSLAND !!!
He had a hell of a time trying to prove that the car had never left the State of W.A. the only thing he could prove was that the time the photo was supposed to have been taken, his car was in bits, being restored here in W.A.
The police finally accepted this and that was the end of it, who took the photo was never found. ????
A wave of spam emails claiming to be traffic infringement notices has been targeting Australians. The email includes links that direct a recipient to a website which attempts to both scam the recipient and infect their computer with malware.
Stay Smart Online is aware of some recipients being infected with ransomware from infringement notice spam. Ransomware such as Cryptolocker is a particularly malicious form of malware which has been distributed by spam targeting Australians in the past. Recent examples include fake emails purportedly from Australia Postand Energy Australia.
Traffic infringement notices have become a common approach used by scammers as they are likely to alarm a recipient into a reactive response to click the link.
If you receive such an email, do not respond or click links. You should evaluate it as spam and delete it.
All infringement Notices are sent by Post mail not by email.
K.J.
-- Edited by kiwijims on Sunday 22nd of February 2015 01:18:46 PM
-- Edited by kiwijims on Sunday 22nd of February 2015 01:32:30 PM
They take front on pics and if you say it wasn't you .. They hit you with $600+ fine ...
So ask for there proof .. Then say going by pics it isn't you...
A Mate of mine owned an American caddy which he imported after a trip to the States,
A short while after it landed here in Perth, he received a speeding fine stating he was pictured doing xxx KPH in some town in NORTH QUEENSLAND !!!
He had a hell of a time trying to prove that the car had never left the State of W.A. the only thing he could prove was that the time the photo was supposed to have been taken, his car was in bits, being restored here in W.A.
The police finally accepted this and that was the end of it, who took the photo was never found. ????
K.J.