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SAAQ, together with the city of Montreal, has issued a notice to all customers, warning them that texts claiming to be from the board or the municipality might actually be phishing scams.
Both are urging the public not to click on the link in texts appearing to be from them.
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According to a CBC report, the fraudulent texts claiming to be from the city of Montreal tell recipients of the message that they are entitled to a refund. Recipients are then directed to follow a link and input their personal banking information.
Frédéric Amiand, Montreal spokesperson, said that these phishing attempts are independent of the city’s servers and that Montreal has not experienced a data breach.
The texts claiming to be from SAAQ ask recipients to renew their driver’s license for a fee by clicking the provided link.
SAAQ spokesperson Mario Vaillancourt said that the links send the message’s recipients to what appears to be a legitimate website, which then asks for banking information, similar to the fraudulent Montreal texts.
Vaillancourt has confirmed that the SAAQ only sends emails, not texts. He also added that payments are not transacted through the board’s website.
“You can pay your driver’s license online, but you do that with your participating financial institutions,” he told CBC.
