Scam Campaign Report: Fake Fulton County Toll and Financial Institution Impersonation
A coordinated smishing (SMS phishing) campaign has been identified involving three phone numbers — 770-762-5855, 945-545-3345, and 832-608-9991 — operating in apparent conjunction and reported alongside Fulton Financial Corporation, a legitimate financial institution with 436 Consumer Financial Protection Bureau complaints on record in the checking or savings account category. The three phone numbers have been linked through same-campaign and reported-together relationships across 12 cross-entity connections, with same-campaign confidence scores of 0.50 between 945-545-3345 and 832-608-9991, and between 770-762-5855 and 945-545-3345. Phone number 770-762-5855 has generated 9 FCC complaints and is geographically associated with Auburn, Georgia.
Community reports describe a multi-vector smishing operation. One consumer reported receiving texts from both 945-545-3345 and 832-608-9991 simultaneously, claiming the recipient had one day to pay parking toll violations in Fulton County, Georgia, and attaching an official-looking document to create urgency. A separate report described an unsolicited image texted with no context, referencing a Michael Rodriguez who could not be verified on the county's official website — a hallmark of impersonation fraud. A third report described a fake charitable donation pickup request using a suspicious link, sent from an unidentified number. None of these links were reportedly clicked by the consumers who filed reports, though the presence of embedded URLs in each scenario indicates a phishing infrastructure designed to harvest personal or financial information.
The geographic footprint of this campaign centers on Fulton County, Georgia and the surrounding Auburn, GA area, consistent with the top-reported location for 770-762-5855. The use of Fulton County government imagery and toll violation language suggests the campaign is specifically tailored to residents of the greater Atlanta metropolitan region, where toll roads and county-level parking enforcement are familiar and credible pretexts. The association of these numbers with Fulton Financial Corporation — whether through direct impersonation or co-reporting by consumers who connected the contacts to their financial accounts — raises additional concern that this campaign may be attempting to extract banking credentials or payment information under the guise of both government and financial institution authority.
The low FTC complaint counts across all three numbers, combined with the moderate-confidence cross-entity linkages, suggest this campaign may be in an early or evolving stage, or that consumers are underreporting to federal agencies despite activity noted through BBB and FCC channels. The 436 CFPB complaints against Fulton Financial Corporation reflect a pre-existing volume of consumer grievances in the checking and savings account category, which bad actors may be exploiting to add credibility to fraudulent communications that appear to originate from or relate to the institution.
Consumers who receive unsolicited text messages referencing Fulton County toll violations, parking fines, or donation pickups — especially from numbers 770-762-5855, 945-545-3345, or 832-608-9991 — should not click any embedded links and should hang up or ignore any follow-up calls. To verify whether a toll notice or county fine is legitimate, contact Fulton County government directly through official contact information found on the county's verified website, not through any information provided in the suspicious message. To check whether a phone number has been reported as fraudulent, consumers can use resources such as the FTC's lookup tools at reportfraud.ftc.gov or the FCC's consumer complaint center at consumercomplaints.fcc.gov. Any contact from these numbers should be reported to the FTC at reportfraud.ftc.gov and to the FCC at fcc.gov/consumers/guides/filing-informal-complaint.
This campaign presents a moderate and geographically targeted threat level, combining government impersonation, financial institution association, and smishing techniques to pressure consumers in the Fulton County, Georgia region. Recommended next steps include escalation of the three identified numbers to FTC and FCC enforcement queues, monitoring for additional numbers emerging from the same campaign cluster, and a consumer alert to Atlanta-area residents warning specifically about fake toll violation texts. Fulton Financial Corporation should also be notified so it can issue customer advisories through its own verified channels.