“Something bad has happened, please call me…” with these words a SPAM SMS lures you.
We again received inquiries about a text message that allegedly led to a money trap.
We already had to deal with this news in 2015.
This is what the message in question looks like:
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Image in plain text:
CAUTION
I got this text message last night!
I didn't know what to do because it made me feel a little uneasy. I then asked a police officer I knew what to do. This is a money trap! That means you call them and they rip you off a lot of money!!!! HANDS OFF!
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Something bad happened, please call me...
It's clear:
And yes, there can be costs when calling such numbers!
Money rip-off through value-added numbers
Because this telephone number is a value-added number.
This means that calling them may result in increased phone bills.
That's why what is said here is exactly true: stay away and DO NOT call!
It often happens that you end up in a waiting queue so that you have to pay even more.
So if you receive something like this in 2017, you can safely ignore and delete these text messages!
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