Wakefield Police Warn Residents About 'Smishing' Scams

WAKEFIELD, MA — Police are warning residents about so-called "smishing" scams.

The Wakefield Police Department posted the following on Facebook:

Be aware of a recent text message-based scam called smishing.

There have been reports of a text scammer requesting EZDrive Massachusetts customers pay a fee for unpaid tolls. This may easily be confused with MassDOT’s tolling program, EZDriveMA. If you receive a similar message-based scam, report it to the Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.ic3.gov.

To avoid being scammed, never share personal information over the phone, never respond to unknown numbers, do not click on hyperlinks and report and block phone numbers that appear to be scams.