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Posted on 10/15/2025 3:49:37 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
The U.S. is awash with scam text messages. Officials say it has become a billion-dollar, highly sophisticated business benefiting criminals in China.
Your highway toll payment is now past due, one text warns. You have U.S. Postal Service fees to pay, another threatens. You owe the New York City Department of Finance for unpaid traffic violations.
The texts are ploys to get unsuspecting victims to fork over their credit-card details. The gangs behind the scams take advantage of this information to buy iPhones, gift cards, clothing and cosmetics.
Criminal organizations operating out of China, which investigators blame for the toll and postage messages, have used them to make more than $1 billion over the last three years, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
Behind the con, investigators say, is a black market connecting foreign criminal networks to server farms that blast scam texts to victims. The scammers use phishing websites to collect credit-card information. They then find gig workers in the U.S. who will max out the stolen cards for a small fee.
Making the fraud possible: an ingenious trick allowing criminals to install stolen card numbers in Google and Apple Wallets in Asia, then share the cards with the people in the U.S. making purchases half a world away.
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China hoes mad.
Are you harassing the OP?
Why are you harrassing the OP? Don’t be such a pussy. State your problem.
What happened? Which of your Zeeper funding sources dried up?
Whenever I get one of these phishing texts, I reply with something vulgar not printable here.
I delete and report.
Why are Americans so gullible?
There are rules against both cross-posting and harassment. Knock it off.
I think people treat their phones like a lifeline from God. I ignore email and text financial crap like that. These must come in by surface mail on company forms.
It might be a little more than gullibility. It it also laziness. With all the normal bureaucratic hurdles people have to jump through lately to just get on with their lives, this might seem like just another hassle to get through as quickly as possible before it becomes something larger and more difficult to navigate.
“I will pay this now so I don’t have to worry about a larger fee laden bill down the road” or “I will pay this because there was that one time I could not register my car over a tax I though I paid”
But you are right, people need to think before they blindly pay some scam artist.
Heck, Congressmen made even more!
They must have busted the car warranty scams. I would get 50 calls a day.
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