Our Police Department wants to warn residents of a recent text message-based scam called smishing. 
There have been reports of a text scammer requesting EZDrive Massachusetts customers pay a fee for unpaid tolls. This may easily be confused with MassDOT’s tolling program, EZDriveMA. If you receive a similar message-based scam, report it to the Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.ic3.gov.
To avoid being scammed, never share personal information over the phone, never respond to unknown numbers, do not click on hyperlinks and report and block phone numbers that appear to be scams.
We want to thank the Methuen Police Department and MassDOT for bringing this scam to the public’s attention. Stay safe!
