No, Your Toll Payment Is Not Overdue

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The Journal.

2025-10-23

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Chinese criminals have made more than $1 billion from scam text messages sent out across the U.S. and the world. The texts warn of unpaid fines and lure unsuspecting victims to fork over their credit-card details. WSJ’s Robert McMillan explains how the scheme works and why it’s been so hard to stop. Jessica Mendoza hosts.  Further Listening: Pig-Butchering: A Texting Scam With a Crypto Twist The Slaves Sending You Scam Texts Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • You know, Bob, right before we got on this call,

  • one of our producers actually just got a text that I want to read to you.

  • Oh. So it says, easy pass, final notice.

  • Oh, Chinese scam.

  • Sorry.

  • Our colleague Bob McMillan covers cybersecurity.

  • And he's been looking into the kind of scam that one of our producers just got fished with.

  • If you fail to pay within 24 hours, we will take the following actions.

  • Report to the DMV violation database, suspend your vehicle registration, and you may be prosecuted.

  • Then there's a link where you're supposed to pay.

  • Oh, that sounds awful.

  • You better pay that right away.

  • Don't tell people they might actually click it.

  • You may have received some of these texts yourself.

  • A lot of people have, all across the country.

  • So I've received several of these text messages telling me IO 699 to Massachusetts.

  • Easy pass.

  • So just a couple days ago,

  • I get a text message talking about I need to pay my toll ways or my license going to be revoked at my nearest DMV.

  • I just got this one this morning from the toll roads team.