{"id":132481,"date":"2026-03-07T23:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/132481\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T23:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:18:10","slug":"philadelphia-courts-issue-scam-alert-over-fake-pa-turnpike-toll-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/132481\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia courts issue scam alert over fake PA Turnpike toll texts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia courts issued a fraud alert Saturday about fictitious text messages that appear to come from the city&#8217;s traffic division. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the text messages read &#8220;Notice of Hearing \u2013 TOLL VIOLATION&#8221; and include a QR code asking recipients to make a payment. The texts also instruct recipients to appear for a hearing or resolve the matter by using the QR code for &#8220;payment of the assessed civil penalty \u2026 prior to the hearing date.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Court officials urge people to ignore the messages and note that the court system will never send text messages requesting payment for tolls, parking tickets or other violations.<\/p>\n<p>Officials also warned residents not to provide personal, banking or credit card information through links sent from unknown numbers.<\/p>\n<p>If you have received one of these text messages or are a victim of this scam, please call police or contact the PA Attorney General&#8217;s Bureau of Consumer Protection at 800-441-2555, or contact the <a href=\"https:\/\/consumer.ftc.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Federal Trade Commission<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia courts issued a fraud alert Saturday about fictitious text messages that appear to come from the city&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4696,69,71,70,9340],"class_list":["post-132481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-pennsylvania-turnpike","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-scam-alert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132481","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=132481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}