Text Message Scam

[Cristobal]

I just got a text message saying that I won a $1000.00 gift card from realtimewinner.com. It's a scam. The phone number it came from is somewhere in Chinese Turkestan. I called ATT and they told me what to do. This company tries to hit you up with a $9.00 charge, as per ATT, and they also try to phish your private information.

This ever happen to you?

 

[simple_gifts]

Yesterday a MS tech called me and informed me about the alerts they've been getting about my PC. I was supposed to go to my PC so they could diagnose it.

Needless to say, as an Ubuntu user, I was skeptical.....

 

[matrass]

you hear about this stuff all of the time. if I get an email of phone call and they are asking me for my account info, they get no response LOL ! I will take my chances of them accidentally closing out my account by accident :O)

 

[gathermewool]

Good for you, doing more than simply ignoring it. I usually ignore obvious scams, but it's people like you who make it known to the service providers.

It still boggles my mind how many people buy into these things. I know the scammers have evolved from the "I am a Jordanian prince and need your help to move funds from my American accounts..." but still.

 

[Artem]

Got a similar thing but with a Walmart $1,000 gift card. I googled the company and got nothing but scam reports in the search results.

 

[andrewg]

Originally Posted By: Artem
Got a similar thing but with a Walmart $1,000 gift card. I googled the company and got nothing but scam reports in the search results.

Girlfriends phone beeped a day ago and one of those fake walmart messages came up. I told her to delete it and never call them.

 

[JustinH]

I've been getting text message spam on my phone about twice a month lately. It only started this year. Just delete and move on.

My google voice number gets about one spam text per day. I think it is robocallers just texting every number on the planet at once.

I'd be a little irked if I had a limited plan for text messages, but my carrier gives me unlimited text and data.

 

[Rick in PA]

Originally Posted By: simple_gifts
Yesterday a MS tech called me and informed me about the alerts they've been getting about my PC. I was supposed to go to my PC so they could diagnose it.

Needless to say, as an Ubuntu user, I was skeptical.....

Ah, perhaps they just wanted you back on Windows.
(Come to the dark side, with the rest of us...)

 

[yonyon]

Scam spam on the cell phone is usually pretty easy to recognise. Text messages from unknown numbers are from prostitution rings. If it's a voice call from an unknown number it's probably a drug dealer. Reporting it is probably the right thing to do, but it's just so easy to ignore them all.

 

[FastEddie]

Well I've been getting more and more of these darn scammer spammer text messages of late. Yesterday I got 2, one said I won a prize and other was inviting me to a party at a "club". These are getting old.