B.C. government warns residents of fake website created to steal personal information
The British Columbia government is warning people about a scam involving its PayBC website, where an “identical fake website” is collecting personal and credit card information.
A statement from the government says the two sites can’t be told apart, although the website addresses are different.The Ministry of Finance provided an example of the scam texted to a person’s cellphone that says, “our automated speeding system has caught your vehicle doing 46 kilometres an hour in a 30 kilometres an hour zone.”
A spokeswoman for the ministry says the province has never utilized an “automated speeding system,” and neither the province nor the Insurance Corporation of B.C. sends text messages to people about traffic violation tickets or payment requests. The fake website shares a similar logo and identical fonts with PayBC’s actual site and once people click on the “pay now” button, they’ll be asked to provide credit card information and their name and home address, said Const. Gary O’Brien, the media relations officer at the detachment.
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