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Be on the lookout for a text scam with COVID-19 twist Tech expert warns of text scam with COVID-19 twist By Ken Brown and Maggy Mcdonel | January 23, 2021 at 5:19 PM EST - Updated January 24 at 4:52 PM CINCINNATI (FOX19) - There’s a new text scam out there that plays on people’s concerns about COVID-19. It asks people to be a ‘store evaluator’ for $400. “Unfortunately, it’s really hard to trust anything anymore because it’s so easy for folks to send these spoof emails and spoof texts,” tech expert Dave Hatter said. This time around, scammers have...

HMRC has previously provided Express.co.uk with important guidance when it comes to messages which purport to be from the Revenue. An HMRC spokesperson said: “Criminals use a range of techniques in tax-related phone scams, including calling taxpayers and offering a bogus tax refund, or threatening them with arrest if they don’t immediately pay fictitious tax owed. “These scams sometimes target the elderly and vulnerable. We are a well-known brand, which criminals abuse to add credibility to their scams. “If someone calls, emails or texts claiming to be from HMRC, saying that you can...

Scam text, it authenticates you to the attacker, your cell number. so you don't want to do that. >> jamie: so you get more of them. >> that's correct. >> jamie: the ftc files these cases. i understand that smishing to cell phones may be able to be eradicated, as opposed to the smishing and phishing on the computer. >> this type of mobile attack can be eradicated because there are a lot of parties who are extra vigilant, have you the ftc and the carriers themselves. so have you all of these defense mechanisms. >> jamie: one of the problems that i hear from people who have been smished is that w...