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SMS scammers use toll fees as a lure
August 27, 2024 - Scammers are increasingly using toll fees as a lure in smishing attacks with the aim of grabbing victims' personal details and credit card information.
Hotel staff bust Hermes SMS scammer with suspiciously large number of cables
June 22, 2021 - If you’re in the UK, you’ve likely received a fake delivery SMS at this point. The original big driver for this...
Parents, beware of this SMS scam
August 17, 2016 - We’ve recently been alerted to a scam circulating within the UK and causing distress to parents or adults who knows someone...
SMS Scams: How To Defend Yourself
July 30, 2013 - Who doesn’t own a mobile phone nowadays? Whether you have an old-school flip phone or a newer smartphone, you may already...
Porn on YouTube Leads to Premium-Rate SMS Scams
July 8, 2013 - Spammers are beating YouTube’s filters to upload pornographic images and tricking people into following a hyperlink to view more. We are...
SEC X account hacked to hawk crypto-scams
January 10, 2024 - The US Securities and Exchange Commission's X account was compromised to take advantage of an expected Bitcoin ETFs announcement.
Catching up with WoofLocker, the most elaborate traffic redirection scheme to tech support scams
August 17, 2023 - Back in January 2020, we blogged about a tech support scam campaign dubbed WoofLocker that was by far using the most complex...
How to spot a scam
October 18, 2022 - Unfortunately, scams are a fact of life online. The virtual ties that bind us are international now: Our public telephone numbers,...
Huge increase in smishing scams, warns IRS
October 4, 2022 - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has issued a warning for taxpayers about a recent increase in IRS-themed smishing scams aimed at stealing...
Scammers send fake ‘Energy Bills Support Scheme’ texts
September 21, 2022 - Watch out for an energy-themed scam being sent out via SMS. The message plays on energy price fears, similar to what...
