Another round of scam texts appear to be targeting people with Pennsylvania cell phone numbers, with more than 700 people reporting the incidents to the turnpike commission in recent days.
The Pennsylvania Turnpike is warning consumers of a scam text message that's circulating asking recipients to pay unpaid tolls.
In Clarks Summit, outside of Scranton, Kathy Judge woke up Monday to the text, which she had received around 3:30 a.m. Judge had driven on the highway just last week. And when she clicked on the link in the message, she was prompted to prove she wasn’t a robot by selecting certain images, a test she said made her feel like the site was legitimate. But after she submitted her debit card number and other billing information, she said the screen turned white — and she realized she had been scammed.
This most recent incident of smishing — or sending fake texts to elicit personal information — is also similar to scams that
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