Last week we told you both how to stop SMS spam, and how to report SMS spam. But now we want to talk about a particularly nasty form of SMS spam: smishing, which is the act of phishing by SMS for private information, often to be used for identity theft. These smishing attempts take the form of text messages which come to your phone saying things like “We’re confirming you’ve signed up for our dating service,” “Your account has been suspended,” or “(Random) bank is confirming your purchase.”