FasTrak Phishing

My friend Kerman told me that FasTrak had recently fixed a 'bug' in their automatic toll sensing devices to account for fast moving vehicles (read: me).
If this is true, it is a welcomed fix because I received a notice from FasTrak regarding a "toll evasion" that occurred in October. I'm pretty sure I wasn't driving too fast because I'm really paranoid about getting these types of notices in the mail.

I jumped through the easy hoops on the FasTrak website and took care of the 'violation'. No problem. But here is the thing I wanted to alert you to…

The notification I received suggested that I could take care of the fine/toll or dispute the violation by visiting their website at http://www.bayareafastrak.org/. Now, how many of you, without looking twice, could accurately type that URL into your browser's address field?

On my first try, I inadvertently entered ".com" instead of ".org" and found a site that looks like this:








Then upon retyping it, I discovered that not only did I enter .com instead of .org, but I included two "t"s as in "fasttrak". I'm sure these phishing sites that are designed to dupe you into thinking that you are entering a credit card number to pay a fine but instead you are just donating money to your local scam-artist latté fund have legal loopholes that allow them to keep operating, but it just doesn't seem right, does it?
















This one is the official FasTrak site.
Be careful surfing out there.