New(?) method of scamming people

[grsdev]

It appears that scammers are now sending flash SMS messages with links to their scam sites.

Yes, flash SMS is a thing, or it used to be about 30 years ago when all phones could do is call and send/receive SMS. What makes is so annoying is that it shows up in its full spammy glory even if your phone is locked.

[HelenNorth]

I am working from my laptop not my phone. How do I send this to 7726?

[Christopher_G]

Hi @HelenNorth

Welcome to the community.

Could you send an email to this email address with the details please: abuse@ee.co.uk?

We investigate and act quickly on any abuse reported to us. While we may not be able to respond individually, we do act upon every email received.

Thank you.

Chris

[grsdev]

7726 is a number where you forward spam text messages that you have received.

With respect to Christopher_G, abuse@ addresses are generally addresses where you report network abuse coming from that network, so if you received, for example, junk e-mail from an EE e-mail user, that's where you would report it.

For scammy activity where someone is impersonating EE in an attempt to get your personal details and/or money, the place to report this is https://reporting.actionfraud.police.uk/

[JaseNotLikeEE]

I have a similar problem . I have received a 'short code SMS' from 'my santander' with a phishing login link.

I cannot forward it to report as its a shirt code message, all I can do is block it.

This is unacceptable as our operator has a Dury to protect us andas we can't report them there's a huge failing.

[Chris_B]

@JaseNotLikeEE   Yes you can.  Your forward the message then when asked your forward the number.      

EE can not stop anyone from calling/texting you.  How do EE or any other network for that matter now that that call/text is going to be a scam when placed.