Your phone is much more vulnerable than you think (Picture: Getty Images) Smartphones are the digital hubs for our daily lives, full of our personal data – and that’s manna from heaven for scammers.
Worse still, there’s been an acceleration in the volume of attacks being directed at our mobiles , as fraudsters exploit the unprecedented conditions of the pandemic.
With online shopping on a high following successive lockdowns and high-street closures, Which? found that three in five of us have received fake text messages from scammers purporting to be from courier companies warning of a missed delivery or unpaid postage.
And of the different channels by which messages can arrive on our devices, text messages are the most universal and create a sense of urgency that scammers seek to exploit.
Tap on a link in one of these messages and you will likely be taken to a copycat website that is almost indistinguishable from that of the legitimate courier company.
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