Anyone else receiving SANRAL VPC SMS on their data SIMs?

[MrBurns8275]

By chance I logged into my 3G router this morning... Discovered three SMSs for overdue e-toll in that inbox.

Since the SMSs don't include personally identifiable info, I thought it a fluke at first.
But then I compared them to their snail-mail "Correspondence" (spread over 4 letters), and the account figures matched down to the last cent.
So they have the right man, so to speak.

The thing is, this is a Telkom 3G-data SIM on contract. I don't even know the number and I've never given it out or listed it on any licensing applications, etc.

So the only way SANRAL could have gotten it was from RICA...?

 

[Chevauxza]

I would suggest trying to get OUTA's attention with this and provide them with any evidence you have - SANRAL must be contravening some sort of law by getting that information.

 

[Durandal]

I must check mine to see if I did. My story is similarly weird - SANRAL VPC is sending me emails demanding payment via email. But not my personal email address, they are sending it to the main email address of the company I work for...!

 

[AdrianH]

By chance I logged into my 3G router this morning... Discovered three SMSs for overdue e-toll in that inbox.

Since the SMSs don't include personally identifiable info, I thought it a fluke at first.
But then I compared them to their snail-mail "Correspondence" (spread over 4 letters), and the account figures matched down to the last cent.
So they have the right man, so to speak.

The thing is, this is a Telkom 3G-data SIM on contract. I don't even know the number and I've never given it out or listed it on any licensing applications, etc.

So the only way SANRAL could have gotten it was from RICA...?

I reckon Telkom just give/sell your info away. I remember years ago when I first got my Telkom line put in, 2 months later I start getting letters offering me credit from RCS. I knew it was Telkom that gave my info to RCS because the address on the invoice had 2 spelling mistakes, and the RCS letter had the exact same spelling mistakes. And this was a few years before RICA.