Scamdemic: The new text scams sweeping Britain (and how not to get taken in)

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02.07.2021 - 07:05

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text scams since lockdown began in March last year – and almost a third of us have fallen for them. The average person receives four scam messages a week, it believes.Hoaxes purporting to be from Royal Mail and PayPal are most likely to have caught us out, but fraudsters posing as the NHS and HMRC are also proving successful.

Chances are high that at some point in the past year you’ll have received a message on your mobile enticing, cajoling or scaring you into putting your money at risk.

This practice is inelegantly known in the trade as ‘smishing’ (SMS fishing), to add to ‘phishing’ (general internet fraud, mostly by email) and ‘vishing’ (voice messages leading to the same).The official term is Bulk Telephony-enabled Fraud (BTF).

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