Text scam senders ask mobile users to type in suspicious links on browsers

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Have you received this text scam? Senders are now asking recipients to type in the links themselves into their browsers.

This time, the URL is just written in plain text. The sender asks the recipient to copy or type in the URL to online browsers.The number used by the sender did not have an SMS ID.“Haha got a similar spam SMS a few days ago. I called the number on your screenshot just now. Also unreachable,” the userThe content of the message is similar to the one Ligot shared.There have been different types of reported smishing incidents during the COVID-19 pandemic.

It is the first telecommunications provider to have conducted this measure against spam and scam messages.

 

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