This threat is worse than headlines suggest — here's why.
) report on the FBI warning 150 million Apple users to delete texts on their iPhones. Unfortunately the reality is even worse than those headlines suggest. Here’s what you need to know and what you should do.warning of dire consequences if you don’t respond right away. Text messages that include links to pay outstanding bills or fines.
All of this is made up, of course, but you pay nonetheless because you’re worried — that’s the idea. These messages include unpaid tolls and newer DMV traffic offenses, but will soon widen the net to mimic texts from your bank or credit card company.It’s against this backdrop that we have seen headlines urging America’s iPhone users to delete the latest raft of DMV texts as soon as they’re received. But that warning applies equally to iPhonethat operate beyond the reach of U.S. law enforcement.
Despite network filtering and iOS and Android spam detection, the tidal wave of texts seemingly can’t be stopped. Google has confirmed new AI-powered scam detection on its phones, and we await to see if this filters the threat or can be worked around. The FBI’s warning to delete all these so-called smishing texts came in an advisory last year, issued in the wake of the original unpaid toll scam that has now swept across America from state to state. Any such texts, it said, should be deleted from phones., and the texts often include instructions to “Please reply with ‘Y’” to get around iPhone’s link blocking from unknown senders.
Whether it’s an iPhone or an Android phone in your pocket, don’t leave these texts undeleted and never
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