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By Dan Ketchum for Spokeo

How to put the brakes on the latest DMV text scam

First, it was phony parking tickets , then toll road scams , now scammers are at it again with an all-new, all-bad DMV text scam. The unfortunate popularity of this latest grift has caused states from New York, Florida, and Georgia, to Illinois, New Jersey, and beyond to issue official warnings.

This article from Spokeo will help you heed those warnings and learn to swerve from the newest DMV scam crooks have cooked up. Because getting ripped off by the faux DMV might be the only thing worse than standing in line at the real DMV.

How the Latest DMV Text Scam Works

This DMV scam all starts with a text from scam artists posing as the legit DMV (Department of

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