Philadelphia residents who receive a suspicious text message claiming to be from the city's Department of Revenue should not click on any links or provide sensitive information to the sender, city officials said Tuesday.

The phishing scam — sent out Monday and Tuesday — tells recipients that the revenue department has processed a "refund request" that can be redeemed by following a link to provide payment information. The message claims that failure to submit banking information will disqualify residents from accessing refunds.

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In a statement Tuesday afternoon, the revenue department confirmed the text messages are fraudulent and said the texts contain malicious lin

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