Fake Medical Billing Text Scam
Scammers send fake medical bill notifications impersonating clinics, hospitals, or pediatricians. Links lead to phishing sites that steal payment info.
🚩 Red Flags
- ⚠Bill from a provider you've never visited
- ⚠No specific appointment date or service mentioned
- ⚠Shortened or unrecognizable URL
- ⚠Pressure to pay immediately
- ⚠Text from unknown number, not your provider's system
- ⚠No patient portal login required — just payment form
🛡️ Protect Yourself
- →ASK YOURSELF: Have I ever been to this provider?
- →DON'T CLICK: Never click links in unexpected medical billing texts
- →VERIFY: Call the provider directly using a number you find yourself
- →CHECK: Log into your known patient portal to see real bills
- →REPORT: Forward suspicious texts to 7726 (SPAM)
More Details
- “You have a new bill from [Clinic Name]”
- “Reminder: Outstanding balance from your recent visit”
- “View bill: [shortened link]”
- “Reply STOP to opt-out”
- “Pay now to avoid collections”
- “Your payment is past due”
- “Pediatric Associates billing department”
Common Questions
Phishing via SMS text. Fake alerts about packages, tolls, banks with links to credential-stealing sites.
Probably not. Toll agencies bill by mail. FBI reported 59,271 toll scam complaints in 2024. Check your toll account directly.
Check sender address exactly, look for generic greetings and urgency, hover over links to see real URL. Go directly to websites, never click links.
Don't click. Open your bank's app or call the number on your card. Scammers spoof bank numbers.
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73% of Americans targeted(Pew, 2025)
|$470M lost to text scams in 2024(FTC)
|$16.6B total losses(FBI IC3, 2024)