Scam e-mail

Tobi Hughes·
Madeira News

Thanks to Lesley for highlighting this.

I just wanted to let you know about a scam email we received supposedly from the Portuguese traffic authority.  It says we were caught driving 100 km/ hr in a 60 km/hr zone & the fine is €120 payable by clicking a link.  I deleted the email but wanted to let you know so people don’t get scammed by it.

Don’t click any links if you are not 100% sure who they are from,  and its very unlikely to get a speeding ticket in Madeira. I’m sure some are issued,  but in my 20 years here, I have never known, or seen a speeding ticket .

 

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9 Responses

  2. In 20 years here I’ve had 2 speeding tickets, 8 parking tickets, been clamped once and had endless earache from the Wife!

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  3. Stimulated by the scam e-mail message, I would like to report another incident that seems suspicious to me.

    On Thursday last week, I received a call to my Swiss mobile phone number with a synthetic voice in English, which pretended to be a supervisory authority and told me that something suspicious had been found on my iPhone and that I should now enter a 1 on the keyboard, followed by the #-key, which of course I did not do, but ended the call, as I remembered reading about a similar event some time ago.

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  5. Fortunately the police here have more important things to do with their time than drive around the Rapida giving out speeding tickets. There’s enough serious crime to keep them busy.

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  6. I also received one of these. When I looked at the email address from which it originated it ended in .it (Italy?). Always a good thing to check. And also, a true ticket will come by post. Stay safe.

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  7. One of the scams in the UK which lots of people have received is for a parking fine. It’s also common for scammers to paste a false QR code over the authentic one in car parks, thus enabling them to catch people out. If anyone gets an email saying that the Princess of Wales has made available to be downloaded, photographs that she has taken herself of the Royal family delete it straight away. We stood to lose thousands of pounds as a result of my husband clicking on this. After a month of sleepless nights, changing all our cards and passwords, lots of phone calls and our computer expert setting up my husbands computer again from scratch, we lost nothing, but it was a wake up call as we were aware of all the usual scams. The police told us that scams are becoming ever more sophisticated and we were not to be ashamed that we had been hacked. Someone said ‘we are only one click away from bankruptcy!’ How true.

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  8. In my experience if the police want to speak to you or contact you you would get a letter or they would come to your house I do not believe they would send you an e-mail or telephone you.

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