BATON ROUGE – The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (DOTD), along with GeauxPass, Louisiana’s statewide toll system, would like to remind residents of a nationwide “smishing” scam. The scammers are using text messages to falsely represent a tolling agency and make false claims that a toll payment is due.
The fake text messages direct recipients to an unaffiliated webs...
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