{"id":3516,"date":"2024-04-10T07:26:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T07:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/?p=3516"},"modified":"2024-04-10T07:26:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T07:26:15","slug":"phishing-scam-targets-ez-pass-holders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/awareness\/phishing-scam-targets-ez-pass-holders\/","title":{"rendered":"Phishing scam targets ez-pass-holders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission issued a warning on Sunday afternoon to its E-ZPass account holders about a phishing scam targeting them. The scam involves fraudulent texts that claim to be from &#8220;PA Turnpike Toll Services&#8221; and demand urgent payment of outstanding toll amounts to avoid late fees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The commission noted that similar scams have been reported by toll agencies across the country in recent days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>E-ZPass customers are advised not to click on any links in unsolicited texts, emails, or messages. Instead, they can safely check their accounts through the official PA Turnpike E-ZPass website or by using the PA Toll Pay app available on the Apple or Google Play stores.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission issued a warning on Sunday afternoon to its E-ZPass account holders about a phishing scam targeting them. The scam involves fraudulent texts that claim to be from &#8220;PA Turnpike Toll Services&#8221; and demand urgent payment of outstanding toll amounts to avoid late fees. The commission noted that similar scams have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awareness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3518,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions\/3518"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}