This particular scam is becoming quite popular because the perpetrators barely skirt the line between fraud and “covering their asses, legally” — or so they hope. Still, no matter how…
Ah, just in time for the Christmas season, these spammers are once again enticing their marks with a Best Buy gift card…albeit a BOGUS one: Winner #91383 You have WON…
Now it’s Target’s turn as bait. As with the Walmart and Best Buy spams, I never entered any drawing at any of those stores. I’ve blurred out my mobile number:…
Here’s another text spam cut from the same cloth as the previous post. Most likely it’s the same spammer; it’s not unusual for them to have banks of phone numbers….
I’m thinking text spammers are having more luck dangling Best Buy gift cards over Walmart gift cards as bait. Here’s yet another one… “Your entry last month has WON! Goto…
Here’s the oldest scam of them all (and this one predates the internet): a tech company will give you their latest gadget to play with and keep. Yeah, sure. And…
I guess Walmart is an especially tempting morsel ’cause text spammers use it an awful lot as bait. Here’s yet another variation: “Dear Walmart shopper, your purchase last month won…
I replaced the BlackBerry with a Samsung Galaxy S2 (AT&T) in February 2012 and it inherited the phone number I’ve had since 1996…along with all of the text spam that…
Poor Walmart and Best Buy — they’re apparently the du jour favorite bait for phone number harvesters. Here’s one: “Congratulations! Go to CardConfirm.com to claim your $1000 Walmart GiftCard now!…
And now, here begins the avalanche of text spam received on my Android phone. This is the usual phone-number-harvesting ploy of “You’ve just won a gift card for (fill in…