Is that Texas notice real?
Ticket and toll scams target people who were actually cited. Here are the signals that a notice may be fraudulent, and the official channels to verify through — never the link in the message.
Scam signals
A demand to pay via gift card, crypto, or wire
No Texas court takes payment that way. This is the clearest fraud tell.
A shortened link or a look-alike domain
Official Texas court sites end in a real .gov / county domain — not a URL shortener or a near-miss spelling.
Urgency + a threat of immediate arrest
Real notices give you a court date and process; instant-arrest threats are a pressure tactic.
An 'outstanding toll' or 'unpaid fee' text
Toll-and-fee smishing is rampant. Verify with the actual tolling authority or court, never the link.
A request for full SSN or card number to 'confirm'
A court does not collect your card number by text to confirm a citation.
Verify through official channels
- The court named on your actual citation — call the justice or municipal court clerk directly.
- Texas.gov and the county's own official website for court contact information.
- For a toll notice: the tolling authority's official site, not the text link.
Coverage — stated honestly
Texas has 254 counties and hundreds of municipal courts with no single clerk-association directory like Florida's. A verified per-court registry for Texas is not yet loaded — so this scanner names the signals and the official channels, and does not claim a court is real or fake based on a directory it does not have.