COVID-19 scams are proliferating via text message and the latest sees CBD oil promised as a possible cure via a fake Fox News article.
Other scam text messages include those offering payday loans of up to $5,000 and alerts for breaking “emergency” news on COVID-19 spreading in the recipient’s area.
AdaptiveMobile is also tracking the number of spam messages scammers are sending out. It’s seen a leap since last week, when below 1% of all SMS spam was related to coronavirus, rising to 6.5% on March 17. “Our estimates would be that on March 17, that a range of tens of thousands to low hundreds of thousands of people in the US were targeted by SMS Spam coronavirus-related attacks. Most of these would have been blocked, but some can get through as spammer adjust and change their attacks.
There’s a simple thing affected Americans can do: forward the text message to their carrier at 7726. Otherwise, the advice from AdaptiveMobile’s Cathal McDaid has been keeping an eye on all the coronavirus-themed online threats out there, which you can find
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