ChatterBank4 mins ago
Phone text message scam
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A month ago on my ordinary pay-as-you-go mobile I received a text message and decided to have a quick look at it (usually if it's a number I don't recognise I just delete them). That peek resulted in all the credit being stolen within a few minutes; now I have a way of looking at those messages without opening them on the phone.
This episode prompted me to get a monthly contract smartphone with a different number but I'm wondering whether similar problems can arise with this or does the Android OS make this impossible? There's no credit to be stolen but could someone use a message to hook up to the phone and use up all my free phone minutes?
Thanks in advance.
This episode prompted me to get a monthly contract smartphone with a different number but I'm wondering whether similar problems can arise with this or does the Android OS make this impossible? There's no credit to be stolen but could someone use a message to hook up to the phone and use up all my free phone minutes?
Thanks in advance.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Thanks for the replies and I've had no problems with the smartphone so far. I definitely didn't reply to that text message but the phone logs showed that the credit all disappeared within 5 minutes of looking at it - maybe a coincidence but that seems unlikely since I hadn't lost any credit before (or since).