​Tolls these days

By BD Bondy
 
Over the past few years we have been travelling quite a bit, by car. As we go through various states, we sometimes go through tollways. It used to be that you’d have to stop and pay a toll, but eventually, you could get a small device in your window and pay the tolls electronically. That was cool except for if you went through different states, then you’d need each states device. We had an Illinois ‘I-Pass’, but not one for Kansas.

Recently, some states have done away with those electronic devices and now read your license plate. After your trip, you go on the state’s website for paying tolls, look up your license plate, and you can pay on-line. It’s pretty easy and pretty slick.

And of course, that means there’s a whole nother way to be scammed now. Apparently, there are some text messages going around purporting to be from a toll fee place saying you have unpaid tolls and you need to pay them before you get fined. I just read about this in a CNET article, which I am including HERE. 
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For us, having been travelling for the past year and a half, it wouldn’t be a surprise to have forgotten some tolls. The article explains all the dire things that can happen if you click on the link they send in the text. I suppose it could be sent as an email too. The basic thing to remember is, DO NOT CLICK on a link unless you are sure of it, or sure of whom it is from.