The toll scam is back again, but it’s more than just a word text this time. A bunch of us in the newsroom have received it; I even got one late this afternoon.
Watch Alicia’s report below
New unpaid toll scam emerges in metro Detroit; here’s what you need to know
You may remember in March of last year, I reported about the unpaid toll texts that were blowing up phones all across Michigan. More than 4300 people commented on our WXYZ Facebook post last year.
Watch our previous reporting
Unpaid toll texts: What you need to know as the BBB calls it an ’emerging scam’
This latest version of the scam is a text of an official-looking document. At the top is a black-and-white state seal, and the words ‘State of Michigan in the District Court of Wayne County Traffic Division’. Nowhere does it list 36th District Court; that’s the first red flag…