MD. M.V.A. ISSUES ALERT ABOUT TEXT SCAM

The Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration is reminding drivers that it will never send you a text message demanding payment for outstanding citations or fees.  The reminder comes as a new scam has been showing up on thousands of people’s phones where a text about an outstanding traffic ticket threatens various penalties if payment isn’t made through a link provided.  I-T gurus say the text looks legit as the formatting is tight, there are no spelling errors and the link address isn’t too phony looking.  The big tip-offs that the message is fake, which can slide by a lot of people, are that it emanates from a foreign number and the agency is referred to as the DMV instead of the MVA as it’s known in Maryland.  Delete those texts.