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Text messages cams increase via fake e-Zass, Ezdrivema or other services for the collection of roads that apply for countless payments from unpaid tolls and fines. “Smischs” -Text fraud has penetrated throughout the country via mobile phones because they have false package deliveries, unpaid invoices and even security threat warnings.

According to a warning of the FBI, fraudsters move the condition with new “smooth” or “spoofing” text messages, which claim that the recipient owes money for unpaid toll fees with common phrases such as “outstanding toll amount”.

The “Smishing” StCAM aims at E-Zass holder or other street toll services, sends you fraudulent text messages that claim to come from a familiar toll service, and then step up to click on malicious links and/or to ask for payment information.

In the same way as street fees, messages are sent via non -delivered packages that request your address or identity examination information. Messages in which you are asked to click on links and pay your overdue utility or credit card invoices.

The FBI warns against clicking on one of the text and e -mail fraud and rather immediately deleting them from their Android or Apple phones.

“Phishing frauds are supposed to create a feeling of panic, catch the recipient unprepared and react about thinking,” warned DMV director Amy Anthony. “I ask everyone to think before they click on the left of all kinds, especially for those who request money, payment, personal information, credit card data, social security number or everything else negatively.”

You need to know the following so as not to be torn down.

What is a SMIT?

According to the FBI, the definition of Smishe is a social engineering attack with fake text messages to get people to download malware, exchange confidential information or to send money to cybercriminals. “Smishing” combines “SMS” or “short message service” and “phishing”. “Phishing” generally refers to attacks on the Internet, in e -mail or on websites.

What is spoofing?

Spoofing is when someone is devalating an e -mail address, a sender name, a telephone number or a website -URL -often only by changing a letter or a symbol or a number -to convince you that you interact with a trustworthy source, but otherwise make it appear familiar to the recipient.

What is the E-Zass fraud?

Fraudsters are aimed at E-Zass users nationwide with a simple scam that contains her account registration information.

You will receive a text message that looks like it is from the E-Zass toll system, which says that you have to owe money for toll fees and have to pay immediately.

The news claims that the account has expired and calls on customers to click on a link to make payment or to request small amounts such as 3.95 to 12.55 US dollars of unpaid toll fees or to avoid higher late fees. This is part of the effectiveness of fraud, because it is such a small amount that most people would not question it.

But they are not behind the small fine; You want your identity.

The official link is falsified and leads you to a website on which fraudsters download your personal and financial information.

Here is the deal: E-Zass does not write you SMS for payment. Always.

So if you receive one of these texts, don’t click on the link. Just delete it, tell your friends that you should do the same when you get one and continue.

If you are worried that you could owe money money, use your normal process to check your account.

If you have already fallen in love – it happens – you want to call your banking and credit card companies to freeze or monitor your accounts.

You should also change your passwords for E-Zass, your bank accounts and credit card registrations immediately.

Then pay attention to strange charges and know how to deny them.

Anyone who receives a suspicious text or an e -mail can submit a complaint to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), IC3.Gov. When submitting, enter the telephone number from which the text was created and the website listed in the text.

Maria Francis is a journalist of the Mid-Atlantic Connect team based in Pennsylvania.

(Tagstotranslate) E-Zass

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