topic Re: Text scam in Security

Text scam

21Holidays — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:02:42 GMT

Received a text from 07396 733461 saying my payment had not gone thro and to update my information at ee-services-uk.web.app believe this to be a scam and reported it.

Re: Text scam

XRaySpeX — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:27:26 GMT

It is! It's obviously a scam! The link in it is not even to EE (domain ee.co.uk).

There are many of these going the rounds. EE would never send you a msg asking you to click on a link in order to access your a/c.

Re: Text scam

Chris_S — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:32:53 GMT

Thank you @21Holidays I appreciate you taking the time to report the message.

Chris S

Re: Text scam

ExtraE — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:11:44 GMT

Received the same text from a different number today. They are probably masking their number. People should not click on the link, they will scrape any data they can from your phone.

The site looks very good but asks for to many details.

Re: Text scam

XRaySpeX — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:32:19 GMT

@ExtraE : Clicking the link will not do any scraping but answering personal details on the page it leads to will.

Re: Text scam

Gaul58 — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 15:17:32 GMT

Thanks for posting this... it saved me fearing I was being mugged by something similar from (so it said) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx which came from mobile number 07396755786 22 Mar 2025

[MOD EDIT - removed link from the public forum]

Re: Text scam

Lesley_W — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 14:16:26 GMT

Hi @Gaul58

Thanks for letting us know. If you forward the text to 7726, this will flag it for investigation.

Lesley