SMS scams are nothing new, they usually vary from a light annoyance to convincing scams that rip Aussies off to the tune of 1000’s. Starting right this moment, customers on the Telstra community can take an further step to report SMS scams which can assist Telstra’s community block these messages from being despatched to different customers.
If you obtain a junk SMS you can ahead the message (you solely want to ahead the textual content of the message, not the sender’s cellular quantity) to 7226, which reads as SCAM on a phone keypad.
Telstra’s system will then use forwarded messages to construct and enhance its database of suspected rip-off SMS in order that rip-off SMS can be blocked in future.
There are different steps customers receiving rip-off messages can take, for instance a preferred rip-off tactic is impersonating Australia’s tollway operators – Linkt is a serious one – and sometimes these operators present a direct means by way of their web sites to report rip-off messages so that they can attempt to take motion towards the imposters.
Besides reporting messages, you can additionally block rip-off message numbers which can stop future messages coming by way of, however usually scammers use completely different numbers each time so this is probably not particularly efficient.
Do you usually obtain rip-off messages? What steps do you’re taking?