Even with Telstra’s Cleaner Pipes doing some of the heavy lifting, SMS scams are getting through, and scammers are getting better. How can you decipher one at a moment’s notice?
It wouldn’t be a week without a scammer trying to pull at least one over us, and while we’ve seen a few scams this week, the amount of SMS scams trying the same trick is becoming more than monotonous.
Messages in garbled English with too many spaces have largely become the name of the game, and something telcos are beginning to work out, though it’s not entirely perfect yet.
Telstra recently chimed with information that its scam detection systems were using software used by other telcos in the world to work out which messages were being sent and cut back on the numbers, something its Cleaner Pipes program also helps out with via machine learning, but it still isn’t enough.
You still need to be aware of the scams coming in, and do your part to not click and fall into a trap. And this week, you may want to be aware that the SMS scams appear to be getting more aggressive, as scammers move on from the obviously absurd websites for you to click on to ones that are a little more difficult to work out.
Such as this one, which popped up this weekend.
Proper English and a link that reads as nearly legit make this scam harder to tell, but there are telltale signs that give off that this SMS delivery scam — like so many others — is just a ruse meant to trick….
