Scam by Text

[Droberts]

i've asked around and so far i can only confirm this happening to AT&T customers. is anyone getting spam'd from a different carrier?

 

[Hump66]

I get them too. I'm also on AT&T.

 

[lstdonsldr]

Ive gotten them here in okc from a 918 number. On AT&T also.

 

[3inSlugger]

Also AT&T...I smell something fishy.

 

[cowzrul]

Wife and daughter have had a few of those in past week but I have yet to get a single one.

 

[wilson]

I have gotten a few of these via text and i am on T-mobile

 

[cyberslider]

I got one of these from "Target" on Saturday. I'm on Verizon wireless

 

[twoguns?]

I got one for the Target here in LTown...ATT.......WAIT




,...We dont have a Target in LTown....D'oh

 

[Werewolf]

i've had both of them as well. its super easy to spoof caller ID/txt source.

the target one URL ends in .tltz.biz - thats a no brainer right there as its not www.target.com

dont even goto the links, the sites themselves have browser based virus installs written into the code.

i did a little writeup that addresses this topic a few months ago. skip down to "software"
http://davidproberts.com/2012/04/09/davidsays-smartpcuse/

I've gotten both of those: both on my cell.

Now my cell is off 99.9% of the time - really - maybe used once every other month or so to call the wife and let her know I'll be late or something when I forgot to call her from the office.

I know phones can be spoofed but geez - when it is off 99.9% of the time.

HOW in the HELL can that happen? Do I have to pull the danged battery too?

EDIT to ADD: And no one - and I mean no one has my number except my wife and she has called me on it maybe twice in the 5 years I've had it. It's a tracphone by the way and not even Tracphone knows who is using it because I paid cash for the thing and pay cash for the minutes cards I use to keep it active.

 

[338Shooter]

I get them and I sign Danny Tanners email and address up. Figure he could use a free tablet.