{"id":196703,"date":"2026-03-18T18:29:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/196703\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:29:06","slug":"fake-traffic-ticket-scam-texts-target-miami-residents-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/196703\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake traffic ticket scam texts target Miami residents | Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami-Dade County officials are warning residents not to fall for fraudulent text messages claiming they owe money for unpaid traffic citations.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Miami-Dade County Tax Collector\u2019s Office, the scam messages falsely appear to come from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles and urge recipients to click a link or make a payment.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say the messages are fake and are not connected to either the Miami-Dade County Tax Collector\u2019s Office or the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Residents should not click on any links, send any money or provide personal information. The message should be deleted and reported as spam.<\/p>\n<p>Officials also stressed that neither the county tax collector\u2019s office nor the state sends text messages demanding payment or directing residents to links for traffic violations.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who is unsure whether a message is legitimate should contact the agency directly through its official website or phone number.<\/p>\n<p>More information is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/mdctaxcollector.gov\/news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">mdctaxcollector.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade County officials are warning residents not to fall for fraudulent text messages claiming they owe money for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[91262,91263,91264,126,123,125,124,91268,91269,1064,91260,91266,91265,91267,91261],"class_list":["post-196703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-fake-citation-text-message","tag-flhsmv-scam","tag-fraud-prevention","tag-key-biscayne","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-scam-alert","tag-miami-scam-texts","tag-miami-dade","tag-miami-dade-scam-alert","tag-phishing-text-traffic-tickets","tag-scam-prevention","tag-text-message-fraud-miami-dade","tag-traffic-ticket-text-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}