We live in an increasingly gray age of communication. It is very difficult to distinguish what is real or not. Most messages try to attract us to blows with false financial emergencies. But… what if they are true?
We block suspicious emails and delete SMS that require money from an alleged delay account. Then life goes on. In principle, it was not a real company to ask for real money that we owe them… unless it is.
This is what happened to a 47 -year -old woman in the US.
Ashley I was always receiving text messages that seemed to be obvious fraud. Had Links to “pay now”They came out of nowhere and looked like any of several phishing attempts we all received by SMS and email. She did what almost all of us have done: deleted them.
It shouldn’t have done so, because, after all, They were true accounts.
On the one hand, Ashley is to blame for not being aware of her invoices. On the other hand, It is not to blame for living in a gray age of communicationfull of suspicious links and where it is increasingly difficult to distinguish what is real or not.
As it counts, at stake was the system of tolls California electronics. THE Ashley’s automatic loading had stopped working.
Each “fraudulent” message erased, the 47-year-old woman approached the violation of the law – and the invoice increased.
Only when he received an “ultimatum” by email, notifying her that her account had been disabled and that she was about to become a “low level criminal”It is that Ashley entered his account and realized that the messages were not slops; but it was indistinguishable from Burla messages.
Californian roads with tolls are managed by an agency called The Transportation Corridor Agencies (TCA).
Speaking to USA today, a TCA spokesman admitted that Most text interactions communicated to the agency are really attempts to phishing.
As it writes, this is a kind of assumption of blame that receiving a message in the name of TCA It’s a Russian roulette game: It can even be the company, as it can be a burlon.
If it suspects that a message may be real, Never open links or answer. Try to know with the entity the veracity of it.