FBI Issues New Warning If You Pay Highway Tolls Online Or By Phone

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We now use our phones to pay for everything—almost; but sometimes that means serious risks that are difficult to spot before it’s too late...Beware those devilish little SMS messages designed to fool you just long enough to click. Maybe your bank with an unrecognized transaction, or how about that late-running Amazon delivery, or FedEx trying to deliver a parcel, or even highway tolls.

SMS scams such as this one, which mimic email phishing campaigns, are known as smishing attacks. And such crimes are surging. When the global telecoms industry gathered in Barcelona in February forThe data is eye-watering—just in the US, mobile users lose more than $300m each year from SMS scams, with more than 400,000 malicious texts sent each day. Nearly half of all smartphone users now say they receive them.warns, “with between 19.8 billion and 35.

Never click a link in an SMS unless you are expecting that very specifically—even then my advice would be to avoid all links

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