I've recently heard a group of 3 Chinese nationals have been arrested in Sydney after being responsible for eighty million scam text messages , they were sending out the toll and parcel scam messages among others to millions of Australians .
I think this explains why the gumtree scammers got blocked ,police say as soon as one site closes down another operation springs up and they know of similar operations that are already up and running.
Apparently these scammers had 3 sim boxes with 192 sim cards sending out scam messages 24 - 7.
Possibly less phone message scams at the moment .They say don't trust any text messages from a business as they don't generally contact you that way and if someone rings from a business you're meant to hang up and google the business name to get their phone number and call them back..I guess most people these days don't trust anyone and don't answer calls from private or unknown numbers.
