More people are receiving text messages that warn them, if they are not paying their paid bill, they were able to face a fine and lose their driver’s licenses. These scammers don’t usually disseminate more – at the same time as Apple and Google can not block them in large victims and large phone companies.
According to a Thursday sheet CNBCCyberSecurity company Trend Micro shows 900% uptick for “Toll Road doctors” in the last three months, the texts reach more people. McAfee research obtained by the output, until the end of January, the scam texts were four times more spread.
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“It works clearly; they are sacrifices to pay it,” Jon Clay, Trend Micro’s Threatening Exploration Vice President CNBC. “Apparently, it seems like driving these things normally than we’ve seen.”
Apple iPhones, although the link is a security measure that removes the initial text, the hackers find ways to be around it. Per TripFrom the scams users ask users to respond to the text with “Y” to reopen the text with an active connection. Scammers can only change numbers and re-change the numbers because it is a temporary correction to block a deception number or notify as spam on Apple or Android phone.
Given the FBI State Service Announcement In April 2024, he said he received more than 2,000 complaints about the scammers in at least three countries. He asked anyone who received a scam to a complaint Internet Criminal Complaint Center and delete the text.
The Federal Trade Commission was given to a Consumer Alert article In January, in January, advising Americans not to react quickly, in January in January to respond to any connection or texts Virginia DMV, The Prosecutor General of the Californiaand Illinois Tollway Earlier this year, he gave separate warnings to consumers about the scammers.
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The clay said CNBC These paid cheats are cheap and easy to implement, streaming, buying bulk phone numbers and website domains to send millions of text messages.
Domains, Georgia’s paste pass, Florida’s SunPass, like anything in New York e-zpass or more common, can be specific to the state like FastTrak. A large number of texts – threatening research firm Censys Approximate More than 60,000 domains are available to perpetuate toll schemes.
Although texts appear immediately focused on collecting money, it is a real purpose Collect personal information. Access to one’s identity is the key to a wide criminal activity.
According to KpPersonal information is valuable because criminals can use to steal personalities and receive personal accounts for financial gain. For example, you can use credit card information to make unauthorized purchases or credit.
There is a simple way to deal with the Toll Scam text: don’t hit anything, don’t answer it at all and just delete.
