PITTSBURGH (100.1 FM and AM 1020 KDKA) Pennsylvania Treasurer Stacy Garrity is warning residents that scammers are using fraudulent text messages to target people's unemployment compensation benefits.
She says that includes people who are receiving regular unemployment benefits as well as state Pandemic Unemployment Compensation.
The scammers are e-mailing recipients with notices that claim their unemployment debit cards have been frozen and that they need to click a link to verify it.
Garrity says the state never embeds a link in a message and you shouldn't ever follow a link like that.
You can contact the unemployment office if you believe you've been scammed.
