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Jul. 14—WILKES-BARRE — The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (PTC) is advising that a "smishing scam" is again being sent to random individuals, aiming to deceive them to share their personal ...
The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center said the center has received more than 2,000 complaints between early March and mid-April about such text scams relating to collecting unpaid tolls.
The FBI is warning people receiving texts about unpaid tolls not to click any links and instead check their state's legitimate toll service website. That text message about your unpaid tolls may ...
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
Phishing scams happen when you receive an email that looks like it came from a company you trust (like AOL), but is ultimately from a hacker trying to get your information. All legitimate AOL Mail will be marked as either Certified Mail, if its an official marketing email, or Official Mail, if it's an important account email. If you get an ...
The scam may look legitimate, but always use caution, especially if there is a sense of urgency to do something. In this case, the text requests customers to click on a link to avoid additional ...
In the scam, Florida residents received text messages notifying them about an outstanding charge on their SunPass toll road payments. "We've noticed an outstanding toll amount of $12.51 in your ...
When you open the email, you'll also see the Certified Mail banner above the message details. When you get a message that seems to be from AOL, but it doesn't have those 2 indicators, and it isn't alternatively marked as AOL Official Mail, it might be a fake email. Make sure you mark it as spam and don't click on any links in the email.