GREENSBORO, N.C. — By now, you know to be on the lookout for the toll text and the final notice for the outstanding traffic ticket. Both are scams (Don’t respond to texts with links to pay. Go to the toll website on your own)
But when you get a text from someone you work with and it has just your first name, and a simple message, along with the name of someone you know, you may pass it off as real. The scammers hope you see it that way.
.This conversation will turn into something else; possibly an ask for information, or money, or just knowing the phone number is active, and other scams could work…