141-010-0024

This moron texts me on cell phone in middle of night asking to show his/her profile - immediately trashed. Wants to "meet today." Desperate jerk!

SCAM. This is the poorly copy/pasted text I just received:

1 of 3
FRM:RS-Baptist Church
SUBJ:RSBC Relief Support
MSG:Have you been negatively affected by the recent disaster/pandemic?
If Yes, we would
(Con't) 2 of 3
love to know you and also support you with the sum of $2,000.
Please do tell us,
Name:
State:
What would the funds be used for:

We
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await your responses.

Regards
Pastor Tom
RS Baptist Church.(End)

Smishing SMS phish text from 1410100024. Likely from https://141sms.com/ in Nigeria.
Text contains link to http://pynesen.shop/CVS.php which then forwards to https://dayoboat.com/ffa71d0d6486946800/999
These websites can only be viewed from a mobile phone browser or an emulated version thereof.

Forward unwanted spam/scam texts to 7726 (SPAM) and let your phone service provider deal with them.
That number was set up by the phone companies to combat spam texts and they can shutdown offending phone numbers.
Never reply with "STOP", scammers will not honor the request (they have no honor to begin with) and it only verifies that they have texted to a valid number and a person who reads their texts.  It will not STOP the texts and may actually make them more frequent.
Never click on a link in such a text as it may cause malware to be inserted on your phone, and even if it does not, just as with replying "STOP" the scammers will know they reached a valid number.

Received the following text message:
FRM:Notification
519916-
SUBJ:www.3bqcpupps.com/o-m0pp?amwwmtq
MSG:Info763770
No one sign for your package today
11/27/2021 11:47:12

Malicious Links

These type of texts are designed to get victims to click a link, then through the redirects you wind up installing Malware (malicious script) into your Browser. They can be simple Browser hijackers that create popups to keyloggers/trackers that record every keyboard press along with visited websites, then sends it to the scammers.
Most times, the "ending" website has nothing to do with the reasoning they sent the link. The "reason" they sent a text was to get you to click the link, which will redirect to multiple websites or try tricking you into installing some app. Some websites are designed to phish credit card or personal info on click bait sites they get paid for, while others just redirect to a News Article or a search engine.

Here is an example from a scam link's redirect path I captured:

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2020/04/don ... d-text-messages
https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-how-to ... t-messages.html

Never click on a link and especially NEVER install an app from a website if you did click on a link. A confirmed Malware/Spyware app is circulating, called FluBot and is installed when a victim receives a text message, asking them to install a tracking app due to a 'missed package delivery'. If you are expecting a package, then go to the official website of the delivery company and track it from their website.

Fake Delivery text scams:
https://www.uspsoig.gov/blog/when-usps-text-not-usps-text
https://link.usps.com/2021/01/12/text-message-mischief/
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2020/09/hea ... e-phishing-scam
https://www.fcc.gov/how-identify-and-avoid-package-delivery-scams

If you clicked a link:
https://www.wandera.com/youve-got-mobile-malware/
https://us.norton.com/internetsecurity-malwar ... oid-phones.html
https://www.avast.com/c-how-to-remove-virus-from-iphone