{"id":2977,"date":"2024-06-20T12:23:53","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T17:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/?p=2977"},"modified":"2024-07-19T11:31:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T16:31:01","slug":"text-message-phishing-attempt-sunpass-florida-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/text-message-phishing-attempt-sunpass-florida-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Text-Message Phishing Attempt (Sunpass – Florida, USA)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This morning one of us received a text-message from an unknown number claiming that there was a Sun Pass toll in Florida that the recipient didn’t pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That person doesn’t live in Florida, but they do have a Sun Pass account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With that said, here’s the message they received:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Sunpass: Our records indicate that you have an unpaid toll trip. Please make an online payment at\u00a0https:\/\/ invoice sun pass tolls (dot) com\u00a0to avoid excessive late fees.”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

*NOTE: Spaces were added and certain parts were removed from the URL above in order to avoid giving the website any clout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The person went ahead and checked their record on the actual Sun Pass website (using a Google search to bring them to the correct website (URL)) which was https:\/\/www.sunpass.com\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ironically, their account actually had a positive balance – so this text-message was clearly a scam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We went ahead and further inspected the URL by clicking on it (which we advise against – most people knowingly exposing themselves to possible malware infections or further scams) and it turns out the scam website actually asks for the visitor’s Social Security Number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Where To Report Scam Websites<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Seeing how dangerous this scam website was, we went ahead and reported it to Google at:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/safebrowsing.google.com\/safebrowsing\/report_phish<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

TLDR: If you come across a website that appears to be a scam (like the one above), please report it to Google. This will ultimately put it on the radar and save others a few headaches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hopefully, this will help some other unsuspecting people avoid this scam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning one of us received a text-message from an unknown number claiming that there was a Sun Pass toll in Florida that the recipient didn’t pay. That person doesn’t live in Florida, but they do have a Sun Pass account. With that said, here’s the message they received: “Sunpass: Our records indicate that you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[156],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyber-security"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/media-moon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}