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Released: October 19, 2011
‘Smishing’ scammers may hit cellphones
Source: Ken Serrano, Asbury Park Press (USA Today)
Brion Sever received an automated voice mail message on his cellphone last week that caught him off guard. It contained an alert that his Wells Fargo bank account had been compromised. Sever knew better. As a Monmouth University criminology professor, he has studied scams. But the one that surfaced on Oct. 9 left him both impressed and spooked.
Sever experienced a spreading high-tech con known as “smishing.” Smishing is like phishing, a technique that uses e-mails that look legitimate to trick victims into handing over vital information, but with smishing, identity thieves ply their scam through messages to a mobile phone, not a computer.
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