{"id":60206,"date":"2019-02-12T14:11:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T20:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=60206"},"modified":"2019-02-12T14:11:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T20:11:10","slug":"another-scam-emerges-text-messaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/another-scam-emerges-text-messaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Scam Emerges, This Time Via Text Messaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Another Way to Exploit People to Turn a Quick Profit, Does It Ever End?<\/h4>\n<p>Hackers have used several different platforms to share their scams.\u00a0 These have ranged from fraudulent &#8220;tech support&#8221; websites, malicious social media posts, and scam phone calls.\u00a0 In addition, there have been tax scams spread through phone calls, or fake emails.\u00a0 The options are unlimited &#8212; so why would we be surprised that they are now sending text messages claiming you need to call now?!<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-60207 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/text-message-scam.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/text-message-scam.png 1440w, https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/text-message-scam-768x1536.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This was sent to one of our employees, who FYI is not named Tammy.\u00a0 Therefore, this scam was a failure from the very beginning.\u00a0 However, one must ask, if my email was used suspiciously, why would the notification be sent via text message?\u00a0 Perhaps as a secondary means of communications, but if legitimate, they would certainly send you an\u00a0email as well.\u00a0 Also, when these &#8220;suspicious email activity&#8221; alerts are legitimate, they never offer a phone number for you to call to remediate the situation.<\/p>\n<p>If you get a message like this,\u00a0do yourself a favor and delete it immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Way to Exploit People to Turn a Quick Profit, Does It Ever End? 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