{"id":133150,"date":"2026-03-09T01:06:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133150\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T01:06:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T01:06:19","slug":"philadelphia-courts-issue-consumer-fraud-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/133150\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia courts issue consumer fraud alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 Philadelphia courts are issuing a statewide consumer fraud alert: They\u2019re urging the public to ignore text messages that say you failed to pay a PA Turnpike toll.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The headline on the text message says: \u201cNotice of Hearing \u2013 TOLL VIOLATION.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/exhibit-displays-first-millennial-saint-041457382.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Exhibit displays first millennial saint in NEPA;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Exhibit displays first millennial saint in NEPA <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The courts strongly advise consumers to ignore these texts and not scan the QR code.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">If you are a victim of this scam or received one of the text messages, authorities say to call your local police department, contact the PA Attorney General\u2019s Bureau of Consumer Protection at 800-441-2555, or reach out to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ftc.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Federal Trade Commission;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Federal Trade Commission<\/a> online.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.2822news.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to 28\/22 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(WBRE\/WYOU) \u2014 Philadelphia courts are issuing a statewide consumer fraud alert: They\u2019re urging the public to ignore text&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[15902,61592,61594,61593,69,71,70,32479,32145],"class_list":["post-133150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-bureau-of-consumer-protection","tag-consumer-fraud-alert","tag-local-police-department","tag-notice-of-hearing","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-text-message","tag-text-messages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133150","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=133150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}