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Bureau of Motor Vehicles Warns of New Text Scam

Summary by machiasnews.com
By Will Tuell Maine’s Bureau of Motor Vehicles is warning of a deceptive new scam designed to steal your most personal data, and it is circulating locally. On Saturday, Aug. 9, both publisher Pierre Little and correspondent Paul Sylvain received the text pictured, in which unnamed officials from the “Department of Motor Vehicles” urged them to pay a supposedly outstanding traffic ticket or lose their driver’s license for 30 days, be subject to i…
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machiasnews.com broke the news in Machias, United States on Thursday, August 14, 2025.
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