The Department of Internal Affairs

Department of Internal Affairs | Te Tari Taiwhenua

Building a safe, prosperous and respected nation



 

Services › Anti-Spam › Anti-Spam Statistics: August 2015

The Electronic Messaging Compliance Unit provides statistical information about TXT spam and scam complaints forwarded to the short code 7726.

Unsolicited commercial TXT messages by industry classification



Unsolicited commercial TXT messages by industry classification

Unsolicited commercial TXT messages by industry classification (XLSX, 12KB)**
Unsolicited commercial TXT messages by industry classification (CSV, 1KB)

Top 5 reported TXT scams



Top five suspected scam/fraud messages by campaign and SMS content for August 2015

1. Your ANZ Credit Card has been deactivated. Please login now to resolve the situation: http ://bit .ly/ANZ_Internet_Banking

2. Your mobile # have won $500,000 USD in Coca-Cola promo to claim go to www .pngcoke .com, click claim enter ref#CRSA871 for more info call +27611861713

3. The following scams are all for the same auction site:
  • I am interested in your vehicle for sale,Kindly email me on: harrisleo7 @ gmail com
  • Is Car listed on Trademe still for sale? reply to my email {sharadm717 @ gmail com}
  • I am interested in your vehicle for sale,Kindly email me on: johntravers07 @ gmail com
  • Hi, I am interested in buying your Car listed on Trademe, what's your best price? Kindly reply via my email lisawoods77 @ hotmail com
  • Hi, I am interested in buying your Car listed on Autotrader, what's your best price? Kindly reply via my email lisawoods77 @ hotmail com
  • Please message me if your vehicle on trademe is still available. Susanallany @ gmail com as this is urgent. Thank You
4. Your PhoneNumber won 850,000.00 in the RedBull Promotions.For claim, send an email to info.redbull @ yahoo co nz

5. Hello, am Scott Snelby from Standard chartered bank, London. Kindly contact me on my private e-mail for a vital transaction: scottsnelby @ hotmail com

Top 5 reported TXT scams (XLSX, 13KB)**
Top 5 reported TXT scams (CSV, 1KB)

**You need Microsoft Excel 2003 installed on your computer to view these files. If you do not have access to Excel 2003 or higher you may use the Excel file viewer to view, print and export the contents of this file.