Those urgent text messages aren’t from your motor vehicle department – here’s how to tell they’re fake

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.