The Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is reminding customers to be aware of scams.

Many phone calls and text messages claiming to be from the DMV are not legitimate.

The DMV said an example of this is pictured below:

These texts claim to offer money through tax credits or a refund, but it's really thieves out to steal personal information.

“Unfortunately, there are people targeting our customers by posing as the DMV,” said Rhonda Lahm, director of the Nebraska DMV. “Scam phone calls and text messages are sadly becoming more common. We advise our customers to stay vigilant and not give out their personal information to an untrusted source.”

The DMV said scam text messages often include links to suspicious websites. Anyone who receives a suspicious text message with a link should not click those links or give those websites any information. These scam attempts often have odd grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure that can be spotted, as well.

The Nebraska DMV can contact some customers through text message, but only if those customers opt into text notifications. Otherwise, the Nebraska DMV will never send unsolicited messages to anyone.