The Brief
- The Minnesota Department of Revenue is warning residents of a texting scam impacting residents.
- The message claims to be from the department and asks residents to click a link and provide banking information.
- Officials advise reporting the message as junk and deleting it from your phone.
MINNEAPOLIS (FOX 9) – The Minnesota Department of Revenue is alerting residents of a new text scam aiming to steal personal bank information.
Texting scam
The backstory:
According to a release, the fraudulent messages claim to be from the department. It asks recipients to click on a hyperlink and update their banking information to claim a refund.
The department warns the texts are not from the department, and emphasizes that it would never send unsolicited communications asking taxpayers to update personal or financial information. …