You've probably noticed scammers love sending text messages. Text messages were used to steal $26.9 million from Australians last year. So what are phone companies doing about it?
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You've probably noticed scammers love sending text messages. Text messages were used to steal $26.9 million from Australians last year. So what are phone companies doing about it?
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Have you ever received a scam text purporting to be from Australia Post or Linkt? It may have been sent by this man.
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The developer of Text With Jesus, which launched in July, called the app “another way to explore ( or exploit?) scripture.”
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When I play it back in my mind, I can clearly see points where I should have twigged – but I was blind to the signals
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Industry code credited with helping reduce scam calls by almost 550m since 2020 but text messages said to be more difficult to stop
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He celebrated his 29th birthday party with Snoop Dogg, spent $600,000 on his wedding, invested in nightclubs and had almost weekly appearances in the social pages. Then it all came crashing down.Â
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A text message scam telling people they have an unopened voicemail has racked up hundreds of complaints to the consumer watchdog in just over a week.
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It starts with a text about a fee for a parcel … and can end with criminals emptying your bank account. Victims and experts explain how to avoid it
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Got a text from Qantas or Apple? Here's how to avoid getting scammed by impersonators who want your details.
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I was on the train, into work this morning when I received a text message on my phone. I had won 3 million pounds! Lucky me!
Just keep an eye out people, if scam email were not bad enough, they are now sending them out by SMS. Have a great day.
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It turns out it can cost SMS users twice as much to add some emotion to their messages, depending on which punctuation marks are used to construct that happy, sad or angry face.
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A hacker claims the iPhone is vulnerable to spoofed text messages that could be used in phishing attacks. And it's not the only handset vulnerable to SMS spoofing.
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A new SMS scam is targeting mobile phone users around the world, urging them to claim free Apple products.
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MOBILE phone users are being swamped with scam text messages, with a spike in dodgy SMSs reported over the weekend.
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Police across several states have warned Australian mobile users of a text message that threatens death unless $5000 is paid.
NSW Police said they did not believe the text, which was sent to "a large number of people" this morning, poses a genuine threat and that they were investigating its source.