Lori Brewer also believes tolls on the roads are in the future. “It’s double taxation and we already pay fuel taxes. Once the first toll road happens it opens the doors to multiple toll roads.

The Arizona Department of Transportation promises: It is not texting you about paying toll fees for nonexistent toll roads. That's a scam. Arizona doesn’t have toll roads.

At a meeting Friday at Central Arizona College, Thomas R. Biggs, a senior adviser for PBS&J, an architecture, planning and engineering firm, said toll roads built now may take 30 years to earn ...

No, Arizona does not have toll roads. It is one of 18 states in the U.S. without tolls, including Nevada and New Mexico. This is one of the most obvious signs that these texts are scams.

The group, he said, represents 130 toll operators in 34 states. Now tollbooths on about two-thirds of the 6,600 miles of roads overseen by the group’s members no longer accept cash, he said.