Folks have been getting a pretty steady trickle of texts like this one:
Now, a reasonably well-informed person would glance at this, notice immediately that that's not an actual government URL (notice that the ".gov" is in the middle of it and it actually ends in ".vip") and would also know that the Indiana state government does not dun citizens via text message under any circumstance anyway, and send this straight to the spam file.
However enough people apparently fell for this that it made the news.
And everyone who saw it on the news immediately ran to NextDoor (or, as I call it, "Karens-dot-com"), where they temporarily paused their incessant monitoring of their Ring doorbell cameras for people walking through the neighborhood while Black and breathlessly reported to everyone that "THOSE TOLL MESSAGES ARE A SCAM PHISHING TEXT!!!ONE!"
There must have been fifty or a hundred more or identical posts by semiliterate people who apparently couldn't be arsed to check first and see if someone had already posted on the topic.
I don't know what the actual lowest common denominator social media site is... normally I'd be inclined to say Facebook or TikTok ...but NextDoor has got to be in the running.
