Colorado, Indiana, Minnesota and North Carolina are now cautioning residents to be wary of text message scams that appear to be from DMVs.

Scam warnings have been issued in multiple states over criminals pretending to be from the Department of Motor Vehicles. The fraud scheme—which sees the attacker issue fake traffic tickets in order to get them to click on an unsafe link—has been reported in Florida,

There has been an influx of people in the community who are receiving an Oklahoma DMV reminder of unpaid traffic violations that must be resolved by June 7.