“A little gift for you” SMS spam appears to come from your own phone number

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2022 12:55:25 +0000

The message reads “Free Msg: Your bill is paid for March. Thanks, here’s a little gift for you”, but it appears to come from your own number.

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Google adds Verified SMS and anti-spam feature to Messages app

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2019 10:50:02 +0000

If webmail, WhatsApp and IM are killing SMS, someone might want to tell Google – as it continues to add new features to its Messages app.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/bOkj5uWtjPM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Hackers exploit SMS gateways to text millions of US numbers

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2019 14:18:49 +0000

Receive any strange SMS text messages recently? If you live in the US, there’s a small chance you might have received an SMS with the following text in the last few days from someone called ‘j3ws3r on Twitter’: I’m here to warn the masses about SMS email gateways. Please look up how to disable it [&#8230;]<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/AeqxEVgRJLM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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