{"id":177863,"date":"2021-09-13T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/smishing-text-message-scam-attempts-have-risen-dramatically-says-which"},"modified":"2021-09-13T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T23:01:00","slug":"smishing-text-message-scam-attempts-have-risen-dramatically-says-which","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/smishing-text-message-scam-attempts-have-risen-dramatically-says-which","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Smishing&#8217; text message scam attempts have risen dramatically, says Which?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports of text message scams have jumped in the first six months of 2021, according to Which? Such &#8220;smishing&#8221; (SMS phishing) scams often involve texts pretending to be from banks, delivery companies and phone networks. The consumer group said figures from Proofpoint show reports of smishing in the UK increased by nearly 700% in the first six months of 2021 compared to the second half of 2020. This has been driven by fraudsters look to take advantage of coronavirus pandemic-related shopping trends, such as people getting more deliveries to their homes, as well as the growth in businesses sending texts to customers. Proofpoint operates the 7726 text service that enables people to report spam texts for free, and collects data on those reports categorised as smishing. Smishing attempts have risen dramatically &#8211; with fraudsters taking advantage of the pandemic to trick consumers into giving away personal details and transferring their hard-earned cash Rocio Concha, Which? The figures suggest there is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports of text message scams have jumped in the first six months of 2021, according to Which?Such &#8220;smishing&#8221; (SMS phishing) scams often involve texts pretending to be from banks, delivery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,1],"tags":[13,8],"class_list":["post-177863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cell-phones","category-news","tag-cell-phones","tag-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}