Residents across the United States are being inundated with text messages purporting to come from toll road operators like E-ZPass, warning that recipients face fines if a delinquent toll fee remains unpaid.
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Residents across the United States are being inundated with text messages purporting to come from toll road operators like E-ZPass, warning that recipients face fines if a delinquent toll fee remains unpaid. Researchers say the surge in SMS spam coincides with new features added to a popular commercial phishing kit sold in China that makes it simple to set up convincing lures spoofing toll road operators in multiple U.S. states.
"The ultimate goal of these kits, he said, is to phish enough information from victims that their payment cards can be added to mobile wallets and used to buy goods at physical stores, online, or to launder money through shell companies."
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/chinese-innovations-spawn-wave-of-toll-phishing-via-sms/
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@briankrebs EZPass doesn't make it easier when it comes to distinguishing spam from actual notices. They send emails with subjects in all caps with "URGENT!" in the title if your balance goes below....*gasp* 15 dollars.
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@briankrebs Got several, but easy to go to the URL I have bookmarked and check. Definitely not clicking on any link in a text message I wasn't expecting to receive.
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@briankrebs I received the SMS.
Was obviously fake since the real toll authorities are even worse assholes -
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@briankrebs the Chinese writing isn’t a clue this is false?
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@paul_aman The image in this post is an ad posted on the phishing group's telelgram channel, not the phishing lure as it appears to targets.
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@briankrebs On Thursday, Jan. 16, I got an SMS from ezdrivma and I don’t live in Massachusetts. I was wondering what enabled it to take place.
