(KRON) — For those who stay in San Francisco, you could have obtained a dire textual content message in current weeks alerting you that point is working out to pay an unpaid parking ticket. The SFMTA (San Francisco Municipal Transit Authority) is telling commuters to not be duped by the rip-off.
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The fraudulent textual content reads, “This is a final reminder from City of San Francisco regarding the unpaid parking invoice. A $35 daily overdue fee will be charged if payment is not made today. https://google.com/url?q=https://parkingofsanfrancisco.com”
Photograph courtesy of SFMTA.
In an announcement posted on its web site, SFTMA sheds mild on the rip-off and tells potential victims to not click on on the hyperlink. “Some customers have reported receiving text messages notifying them of unpaid parking citations and providing a link to a website where they can pay,” mentioned SFTMA. “This web site is fraudulent and never associated to the SFMTA. Please don’t use this hyperlink to pay any quotation. The SFMTA doesn’t request fee by textual content with a hyperlink to a web site.
If in case you have made a fee by this fraudulent web site, please contemplate contacting your financial institution or bank card firm instantly to report the costs.”
SFMTA advises these with parking or transit citations to go to right here for the right strategies to pay any fines.