From the Federal Citizen Information Center:
Thanks to a con that has spread like wildfire in recent months, there’s new concern for anyone with a bank account and a telephone number. The new trickery is called “smishing.” It’s a cousin of “phishing,” an attempt to get personal information via e-mails or other electronic communication. “Smishing” relies on wireless phones for identity theft by using a communications protocol called SMS (short message service), which sends text messages. Read more…
Paul- I got a text message on my cell phone one day last week saying I needed to call a certain # to verify my debit/credit card. I was wondering how the bank even got my cell phone #. Ater reading your blog, I realized that this was probably an instance of “smishing”. Thank goodness I didn’t reply to that message. Do you know if there is a way to block these texts ?
Hey Joy.
Do you mean block certain texts or all texts?