Gadgetory

criminals are a persistent Bunch always finding new ways to run scams one of the latest you need to know about smishing I don't know anything about missing I can't even say it right submission no I've heard of phishing but not submission the two are similar phishing is an attempt to get information by impersonating companies like banks smishing is phishing using SMS to do a call to action across North America Europe and the UK 30 million smishing messages are sent to cellphone users every day the attackers think hey people don't have filters on their phone so maybe we could send up these and people receive them and we'll get larger numbers of people dropping their account information fortunately most people know how to respond I usually ignore them sometimes they say text to stop but I don't know if that's even more of a scam I delete it as soon as I see it if it's too good to be true it's probably too good to be true still scammers keep trying to find unsuspecting individuals who will give up their information users should send offending messages to spam so you take the message forward to seven seven to six short code and your cell phone provider will be alerted and will mark it as a abuse message when in doubt call the company that supposedly sent the SMS and ask if it's legitimate in San Francisco I'm simi das cnet.com for CBS News