“I go to bed at night and it’s the last thing I think about. I wake in the morning and it’s the first thing on my mind,” 74-year-old Andrew Engel said.
“I went to the doctor today and he says my blood pressure has gone through the roof.”
That’s the price aged pensioner Engel is paying after falling victim to scammers, with a simple con that is catching thousands of Australians unaware.
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“It is very good and looks legitimate,” said Delia Rickard from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
“But it’s a scam.”
And a cruel one at that.
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Like many motorists, Engel has a tag on his car for tolls.
But one day recently he received a text message from his toll collection company Linkt, saying a recent toll was not registered and to avoid a fine could he pay the $5 toll. So he did.
The link to the company website and the URL all looked good, but it was in fact criminals who later fleeced his credit card for $11,000.
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