SCAM of the Week: E-ZPass Emails

If you have received what appears to be an email from E-ZPass, saying you owe a missed toll, do not click on the link in the email.

It's an Internet "phishing" expedition by scammers trying to fool people into giving out their bank account numbers.

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The phony emails are even going to people who don't have E-ZPass accounts. That's because they don't come from E-ZPass, which never sends emails about tolls missed. Those invoices come via snail mail, through the U.S. Postal Service.

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New Hampshire Transportation Department spokesman Bill Boynton said Wednesday that he's been hearing about such emails, that are awkwardly worded, for several weeks, and and there is a warning about them on the NH E-ZPass website.

But Boynton said the scammers aren't limiting themselves to Granite State residents. "It appears to be widespread," he said, with his department hearing from other states. An Internet inquiry for "E-ZPass scam" brings up stories from just about every state where E-ZPass is used.

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