{"id":132468,"date":"2026-03-07T22:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/132468\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T22:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T22:54:07","slug":"philadelphia-courts-issues-fraud-alert-due-to-toll-text-scam-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/132468\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Courts issues fraud alert due to toll text scam \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Courts warned residents on Saturday of an ongoing text scam that claims to be demanding payment for a toll violation on the PA Turnpike. <\/p>\n<p>The texts pretend to be from the Traffic Division of Philadelphia Municipal Court and say that people must pay the fine or &#8220;appear in court,&#8221; according to officials. <\/p>\n<p>Officials are urging people who receive the texts to ignore it and not scan the QR code included in the message. <\/p>\n<p>The Courts are also reminding people that they would never send any kind of demand for payment via text. <\/p>\n<p>The fraudulent texts appear like the picture below: <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/22c94784-e511-48f3-82f7-171a100ffccc.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Courts warned residents on Saturday of an ongoing text scam that claims to be demanding payment for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,21011],"class_list":["post-132468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-scams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}