(Don’t) click here to pay your tolls: How you can stop spam texts

Motorists pass through a toll plaza near St. Petersburg, Florida. Bogus text messages threatening phone users with unpaid toll fees have spread rapidly — in part because scammers try to benefit from trends in travel and congestion pricing, an expert tells NPR. Sean Rayford/Getty Images

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Are you a lucky winner of a gift card? Maybe you have a surprise IRS refund waiting, or you need to click a link to verify your bank account. You might even owe toll charges from a state where you’ve never driven the highways.
 
Those scenarios are some of the most common pretexts

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