Tag: smishing
New SMS Bank Phishing Scam Uses Hacked Holiday Inn Phone Numbers
Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and Key Bank are among bank accounts being phished, SMiShed and vished by scammers who are sending SMS text messages to users, directing them to call hijacked Holiday Inn Express phone numbers which the scammers have disguised to make them sound like automated banking systems. So far this current crop has happened primarily in the Houston area.
Don’t Get Taken in by SMS Phishing (Smishing)
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.”