GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KREX) - If you received a text message claiming to be a DMV notice or a toll bill, be careful, you may become the next victim of a scam.

Text message scams are on the rise across the nation, including here on the western slope, according to a warning sent out today by the Grand Junction Police Department. They tell us, this past week, the department has been flooded with community concern.

“We've been receiving a large influx of these over the last, I would say, particularly the last week, and even some to our employees here at the Department," says Mary Speer, Police Services Technician for the GJPD. "We've had people coming to the counter four or five, six times a day advising of these scams…it's more a matter of when are you going to receive it than if. Because

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