Thursday 28th March 2024

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A Fraud Alert has been issued by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.

A press release says the DHSS team was made aware of a new text-message scam targeting citizens and their personal information. The website is registered using a provider from the European Union on December 2, 2021.

The text message requests that citizens visit a website to enter their social security number, name and date of birth, and upload photos of their driver’s licence to “validate” their “one-time COVID-19 Vaccine verification.” In an attempt to legitimize the site, logos of DHSS and the Missouri Department of Revenue’s myDMV portal appear along the top.

DHSS has worked with the Missouri Office of Administration Office of Administration’s Information Technology Services Division (OA-ITSD) to take all actions at the state’s disposal to report the site to the proper authorities, although the site is hosted and maintained externally.

If a citizen submitted their information through this website, DHSS recommends starting with several steps to protect themselves:
1. Contact your financial institutions to notify them of the privacy breach;
2. Contact the Social Security Administration to report an exposed SSN; and
3. Contact credit reporting services to alert them your information was disclosed.

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