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Who is sending those scammy text messages about unpaid tolls?
The latest smishing scam follows a familiar process as ones the industry has seen over the past decade.
But the inclusion of toll road violations is a new thematic spin to a wave of attacks known as smishing — phishing over SMS or text messages — similar to scam campaigns related to missed package deliveries, threat researchers told CyberScoop. The malicious sites linked to these attacks often include some variant of a legitimate toll road collection subdomain, but end with uncommon top-level domains that are more commonly associated with cybercrime. Most of the malicious texts Holland observed were delivered via iMessage from email accounts registered to burner phones running SIM cards with numbers based in the United Kingdom and the Philippines.
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