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driving and deliveries two routine parts
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of our Lives which scammers are now
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glomming on to to try and steal your
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personal information your money or both
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so here's a couple of quick
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alerts all over the country people are
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getting variations of this text warning
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of an unpaid toll warning of late fees
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loss of license and other consequences
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those sending out the fake alerts are
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being pretty aggressive not only are
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they sending them as emails but also as
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multiple texts to try and create a false
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sense of urgency an examination of the
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few texts that I've received show they
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originate overseas 44 is the country
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code for the United Kingdom 63 the
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country code for the Philippines or
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they're coming from hijacked email
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accounts which have no link to any
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agencies most told in this country are
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either collected via transponders or by
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a letter sent via US mail whose sender
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can be verified if you receive a fake
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toll message file a complaint here with
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the FBI's internet crime complaint
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center that's ic3.gov be sure to include
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the phone number or the email from where
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that message originated so they can
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you are delivered a package from a legit
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agency but when you open up the package
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you find it contains some sort of
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inexpensive gift as well as a message
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this note here says that this free gift
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is part of a promotion and a marketing
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campaign and all I need to do to figure
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out who sent it to me is to scan this QR
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code don't do it scanning that code
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gives criminals access to your phone and
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with it all of its personal and
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financial data on that device and once
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they get that the bad guys can do all
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sorts of damage including accessing and
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emptying your bank accounts and those QR
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code scams can be quite expensive the
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FBI says last year they cost Americans
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$150 million collectively with these
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consumer quickies I'm C graia
