Maine State Police Warning About Scary New DMV Scam

Even though scams have been around for hundreds of years, technology has made them much more prevalent.

It feels like every other day we are hearing a warning about a new phone, social media, text, or email scam.

Text messages seem to be the new 'trendy' method of scamming people.

When you think about it, it does make a lot of sense to use texts. The scams can be pulled off without the scammer needing to have a phone conversation with the target (revealing their accent). On top of that, the fact that the target is getting a text makes it seem more likely that it is legit.

The Maine Department of Public Safety and Maine State Police are warning people about a new text scam that is intended to look like it comes from the Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

The message claims that the target is in violation of one or more laws and if they do not click the link they could lose their license, be fined, etc.

A Maine Department of Public Safety Facebook post says, in part:

It seems like everyone in Maine got this scam text this morning, even Secretary Bellows. Don’t fall for the scammers’ criminal tricks. Report the text as junk, and whatever you do, don’t click on the link. We will never notify you of a license suspension via text.

While this text message came from an Illinois area code, it is likely that the number being used was spoofed and probably does not belong to the scammer.