Stopping Smishing: How to Find Out Who is Texting You
Most of us have learned by now that answering a call from an unknown number can be risky. True, there is a chance that it is a friend with a new phone or someone calling from work, but most of the time, it turns out to be a telemarketer, an automated message, or even someone trying to scam you into giving them your personal information. As people have gotten wiser to these methods, however, companies and scammers have both adapted, and while it is almost a reflex at this point to dismiss a call from an unknown number, what about a text?
Text messages are a little harder to ignore, which is why they have become a new avenue of marketing as well as phishing attacks (sometimes called “smishing”). As many people’s favorite mode of communication, reading and answering a new text has bec...
