Scammers have apparently paused their fake toll road scams in order to start up a new campaign: Fake texts from motor vehicle departments. According to a blog post from Malwarebytes, a new phishing campaign has been spreading through several states.

For instance, one of these fake texts, which claimed to be from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles, was sent to an employee at Malwarebytes Labs. The message itself used the lure of having outstanding traffic tickets as a way to get the recipient to respond.

Like most phishing attacks, it had many of the usual red flags: spelling errors, a sense of urgency that encouraged the target to take action by making a payment using the included link, threats of legal or administrative action and instructions that would circumvent their phone's ability

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