Fake invoices that mimic official Monterey County emails are targeting businesses and individuals and requesting thousands in fees.

Several County of Monterey agencies want to alert the public of a scam going around where fake invoices appearing to be from ...

Smishing is a type of phishing scam that works through text messages ... The fraudulent text messages claim recipients have unpaid parking invoices and threaten a $35 daily fine if left unpaid.

MESSAGE. OH, YEAH, THAT’S RIGHT. THEY SAID THAT THEY’VE GOTTEN HUNDREDS OF CALLS FROM PEOPLE YESTERDAY AND TODAY ABOUT THIS SCAM. AND NOW THEY’RE URGING PEOPLE TO EDUCATE THEMSELVES SO YOU ...

HE SPOKE WITH OUR MAYA PAYTON ABOUT HOW STORM SURVIVORS CAN PROTECT THEMSELVES FROM DISASTER RELATED SCAMS AND FRAUD. THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, WANTING TO PROTECT PEOPLE FROM A SCAM. HE SPOKE WITH ME ...

The Federal Trade Commission issued a warning earlier this year letting smartphone users know they were being targeted in an unpaid tolls scam created by cybercriminals pretending to represent ...

The "smishing" scam targets E-ZPass holders, sending them fraudulent text messages that claim to be from E-ZPass and then tricks customers into clicking malicious links or asking for payment ...

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One tax scam encourages people to create fake W-2 forms. Fake emails impersonate the IRS, state tax agencies, and software companies. Fraud has no season, but scammers know that the days leading ...