Winters Police Department advises the community to ignore any text messages regarding the Toll Roads closed and having an unpaid toll bill.

A Winters PD Facebook post shares some of the signs you should watch out for when dealing with these scammers:

Grammatical/spelling errors in the messages.

Email or text sent from email addresses from a public domain (Gmail, Yahoo, Live, Hotmail), that do not contain the company’s name/it’s misspelled, or a random personal email.

Message includes a link or attachment you are unsure about. Or when the link only works after a series of instructions/by pasting it into your web browser.

A company that should already know you are asking you for your information, especially if they are the ones that reached out to you.

To be sure that a message or text is legitimate, make sure to cross-check the claim through other sources such as Google, the company, hang up and call back through a number listed/claimed on Google or their official website, check your bank statements or applications to see if there was actually a charge made on your account.

According to the post, the Toll Roads do not send text messages to non-accountholders. The Toll Roads customers can verify valid text notifications by logging into their accounts.If you receive a phishing text, please file a complaint at www.ic3.gov. If you believe you were a victim of a scam, have lost money and/or your personal information to a scam, or are unsure if something you received is a scam and want a second opinion, please call our non-emergency dispatch number at 530-795-4561.