You might've heard of those toll scam texts. Heck, at this point, you've likely gotten a text pretending to be from E-ZPass or some such entity. We covered these scams at Mashable back in January, and ...

According to Robokiller, Americans received 19.2 billion spam and scam texts in April 2025 alone — that comes out to about 63 spam texts for every person. There’s only one group of people who don’t ...

Investigators say scam toll and postal texts are part of a billion-dollar phishing operation run by criminal networks in China. Fraudsters use SIM farms, phishing sites and gig “mules” to load stolen ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - In a recent three-day window, a private online security company detected a 100-fold increase in traffic ticket text scams sent to Ohio drivers. Millions of these messages went ...

First, it was phony parking tickets, then toll road scams, now scammers are at it again with an all-new, all-bad DMV text scam. The unfortunate popularity of this latest grift has caused states from ...

(Stacker) - First, it was phony parking tickets, then toll road scams, now scammers are at it again with an all-new, all-bad DMV text scam. The unfortunate popularity of this latest grift has caused ...

FORT SMITH -- Police are warning River Valley residents about a scam purporting to be from the Arkansas Department of Finance and Administration. The scam came to the attention of the Fort Smith ...

Got a text message from USPS about a package that you don’t quite remember ordering? The impulse to click on the link to jog your memory about the delivery or to see why a package you were expecting ...