It appears as if everybody on the town has just lately acquired the identical textual content message warning that they’ve an excellent visitors ticket and, if they don’t promptly reply to the textual content, their car registration and driving privileges can be suspended — plus they may get hit with a service payment and presumably face prosecution.
All of that may be scary if the government agency and the statute cited in the text were not completely bogus. The textual content is merely the newest try to trick callow residents into gifting away the keys to their private funds.
One of many doubtful blessings of the Web Age is that thieves wouldn’t have to go to the difficulty of breaking right into a automobile, discovering an open window at somebody’s home or lifting a pockets in a fast bump and seize. These intent on stealing cash can merely flood hundreds of cellphones with spurious spam, assured {that a} sure proportion of poor schmucks can be fooled and can reply, thus giving the cyber pirates a gap to their financial institution accounts and bank cards.
I suppose having a thief ship me a textual content is best than discovering a burglar in my dwelling. Nonetheless, it’s disheartening to seek out this type of sinister textual content on my cellphone practically every single day of the yr. It’s a bit like having my home surrounded by on-line zombies who can not get inside, however can, nonetheless, peek via the home windows.
My already jaundiced opinion of humanity isn’t assuaged by figuring out a depressingly excessive variety of my fellow people are relentless crooks stealing from anybody who solutions their craven name.
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