Toll road scams are back: What to do if you get a text saying you owe money

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/02/22/scam-text-unpaid-tolls-ftc-fbi-warning-what-do/79628417007/

A popular text message scam continues to rear its ugly head on phones across the U.S., demanding money from consumers for fake unpaid tolls.

These texts generally try to impersonate the toll service in your state – for example, if you live in California, the text will likely say it’s from FastTrak. If you live in New York, or one of the 19 other states that use EZ Pass, it will probably claim to be from them. Some of the texts will include links to a dupe website with a URL and a webpage designed to look like the real thing…

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I had this very same scam attempted on me a little over a year ago. The messages repeated 3 times over the course of a few weeks, were  very convincing and even pretended to come from a legitimate law firm in Texas. What made me scratch my head was the fact that we hadn’t traveled in Texas in a number of years. I contacted the offices of the toll company and confirmed there was no such outstanding balance and ignored the email.

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Yeah, got one here too a few days ago. Very generic and spoofed a Country Code 77 (S. Africa). Don’t recall driving through the bush recently.

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my mom got one of these kinds of text on her iPhone about EZ Pass this past Saturday March 15 when driving back to Los Angeles from San Diego, California. I told her to delete it immediately (and report it as junk).

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