Suspicious text messages asking community members to immediately pay for parking tickets have been reported to the City of Kingston. This type of scam, called smishing (short for SMS phishing), asks the user to click a link and enter sensitive data, such as a credit card number, banking information, passwords and other personal information.
This is a sample of what a smishing text may look like:
We do not follow up on payment of parking tickets by text message. City of Kingston parking tickets can be paid for by mail, in person at the City Hall Payment Centre or in the 24-hour collection box on the door of City Hall's Market Street entrance.