TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Florida Attorney General’s Office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement recently shut down hundreds of fraudulent Sun-Pass websites, designed to steal your money.
But that hasn’t stopped crooks from creating new ones and continuing to send them to Floridians, with threatening text messages to pay unpaid tolls. A Pinellas County woman fell for the scheme and ended up out more than $4,500.
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At 80 years old, Ed Mondello works full days driving a truck. He said his elderly wife mistakenly clicked on a fraudulent link in a threatening text message claiming she had unpaid tolls. The scheme has hit consumers nationwide for months, and crooks aren’t letting up…