The $6 Toll Fee Text Behind a Billion-Dollar Chinese Crime Ring | WSJ
The Wall Street Journalยท2025-11-19 17:01
There we go. It starts with a simple text. >> Urgent message.You have an unpaid toll. It's important that you take care of this fine over the next 12 hours or your vehicle will be impounded. This is probably very similar to a text message that you've received.Americans received an all-time high of over 330,000 toll scam messages in a single day in September. Federal investigators say that crime groups in China are behind the scam and they've made more than $1 billion over the past 3 years. And it all links ...