US cities warn of wave of unpaid parking phishing texts

stapp · Mar 10, 2025

US cities are warning of an ongoing mobile phishing campaign pretending to be texts from the city's parking violation departments about unpaid parking invoices, that if unpaid, will incur an additional $35 fine per day.
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To circumvent this, the scammers use an open redirect on Google.com to redirect users to a phishing site named after the city it is impersonating. For example, the phishing site for New York City is nycparkclient[.]com.
Over the past year, Apple introduced a security feature that disables links in text messages from unknown senders and suspicious domains.
As Google.com is a trusted domain, Apple iMessage does not disable the link, so using the company's open redirect makes it easier to trick unsuspecting users into clicking on the link by mistake.
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