Tuesday, November 2, 2010

The Sneakiest New Shopping Scam (Text Messages)

By the editors of Shop Smart Magazine

How it works
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"Smishing" is the latest twist on that scam (Phishing) — instead of getting an e-mail, you get a text message. (The word is a combination of "SMS," for short message service, aka text messaging, and "phishing.") You're told to call a toll-free number, which is answered by a bogus interactive voice-response system that tries to fool you into providing your account number and password.

Read more on this newest scam here
http://shopping.yahoo.com/articles/yshoppingarticles/448/the-sneakiest-new-shopping-scams