The Kansas Department of Health and Environment and the Kansas Department of Revenue urge Kansans to be alert for text messages that claim to represent KDHE and KDOR.

These unsolicited messages may be phishing scams, and people should delete and not open the links or respond to the texts. State agencies will not send unsolicited text messages requesting vaccination status, social security number or other sensitive information. Additionally, all KDHE and KDOR websites end with a .gov suffix. Websites with endings such as .com or .org are not legitimate.

People can report scam text messages in three ways by reporting it on the messaging app you use, coping the message and forwarding it to 7726(SPAM) and reporting it to the Federal Trade Commission at ftc.gov.