Has your phone been blowing up with texts about unpaid toll bills? Mine sure has, and the same is true for many of us at 7 News Detroit.
I decided to ask about it on the WXYZ Facebook page , and we got more than 4,300 comments from people across Michigan and others out of state.
Maisha Floyd of Detroit received two text messages last week saying she had an unpaid toll bill. The first one had a +63 country code number at the top, indicating it was from the Philippines. The EZ Pass one came from an odd Outlook account and warned, “if you fail to pay by March 6, 2025, you will face penalties and legal action.”
Normally, Floyd would have ignored these texts, but she told me she’d recently traveled and used toll roads in Texas, Kansas, and New Mexico…