WSBTV Shares- Georgia Department of Driver Services officials want to warn you about a new text message-based scam that is trying to steal your money and your driver’s license information.
Here’s how it works: the criminal will send you a text message asking you to follow a fraudulent link and pay an outstanding traffic ticket.
The message claims to be from the Georgia Department of Motor Vehicles. However, that agency does not exist in Georgia.
“DDS employees do not contact customers to ask for payment or other confidential information. Anyone who receives such communication should consider it a scam. Customers who are pending a license suspension or other changes in their license status are notified in writing by DDS. Anyone who receives these — or similar — text messages should not open or respond to them and instead delete such messages immediately,” DDS Commissioner Angelique B. McClendon said.
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