Smishing Scam

By BD Bondy

​I accidentally mistyped the name Smishing, a combo of SMS and phishing, but I like Smushing as a name too. SMS is a text message, phishing is ‘fishing’, throwing a line out and hoping to get a ‘bite’. In this case, I found an article on the weird test messages I’ve been getting, sometimes just a Hello, sometimes asking who I am, and sometimes an invite to coffee or something like that.

Often it seems to want me to respond in a way where I explain they must have sent the message to the wrong person, so sorry. Being a bit cynical in the tech world, I never respond and instead, delete the message and select ‘Report as Junk’.

It appears that there may be links attached sometimes that I am meant to click on, or simply reply in some way which will likely escalate into more text messages or who knows what. If you get these messages, delete them and report as junk. I am additionally going to try and block them if I can figure that out. Sometimes I get several a day, but usually, several a week.
​
It's a good article you can read HERE: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hello-text-scam_l_67eb1781e4b0d17863f2fb05