Tag: Spam

Never Click links in unexpected Text messages!

Paul
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Unexpected Text message

Today I got a really interesting text from (347)268-9158 and the Message contained:

Eamon, Urgent alert about the USPS shipment 5K24F6 from 7/17/2020. Click : sj1v.info/[hidden]

I’ve always believed that you should never click anything that you didn’t expect to receive.   I was at work at the time so I decided to wait till I got home to try to figure out this out.   I did my usually searched for the message on Google maybe someone else commented about this also.   That came back with nothing.   So my next option was to see if I could find out where this url was going to so I went to a URL expander such as CheckShortURL because I thought it might be a shortened URL.   It couldn’t find out the expanded URL.

Deeper Look

I decided to check out this domain because I was curious about a url that didn’t look like a normal URL.  So I did a WHOIS Lookup with Whois.net and I got this information about the domain:

You can see some very important information about this domain.   For instances you can see when this was created which was a day ago.   It seems kind of strange to create this domain a day ago.   I have always said don’t click links.

Do not Click

I can’t express how much you should not click links that you didn’t ask for or from unknown numbers such as this.   I have my thoughts that it tries to compromise your phone and get a virus or something in your phone.   I serious doubt a new website would send me to a new site about an order that I supposedly did in June or July!   If in doubt always GOOGLE the number or google the message to see what others might have to say about the message.

 

How spammers are still able to send your voicemail!

Paul
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Spam in my Voicemail

If you haven’t seen this feature or had this feature done to you then your one lucky person.  They seem to be able to avoid being blocked.   Spammers are sending you voicemail and not ringing your phone.   This prevents you from being able to block them or hear their spam or scam.   For instance this came in my voicemail:

Hi this is Caroline Ferguson agent id is two four five one (#2451) I am following back up with you regarding the recent have a lawsuit filing your student loan has been accepted into the settlement which now entitled you to receive some forgiveness on all future payments what screen about this is the settlement offer applies to all loan status is including if your loans are in default a suggested you call today to have this activated before expiration. The settlement line is (202)921-7300. Make sure to supply your personal eligibility validation number one one two zero one nine (#112019) when calling in hope this helps and have a nice day.

This should be an Opt-in feature!

I’m currently using Cricket Wireless as my Cell company and most cellular companies think this is a great feature.   Some cellular companies have a way to send your voice messages to voicemail without calling your phone.   It’s been called send to voicemail and a lot of cellular companies have ways to do this without you even hearing your phone ring.  When phone companies started making this feature well known, you had to know spam was to follow.  I called Cricket Wireless and tried to find a way to disable people from doing this but they couldn’t find a way.   I should be able to disable this feature or it should of been an opt in feature for new customers.

There’s an App!

If you didn’t know, you could easily do this with your phone and make it even harder for people to ignore you.  This is why spammers/scammers are using this feature.   There’s a app that you can download to do just for this called Slydial.  New company that should allow people to be opted out of this wonderful feature.   I can’t even find a way to opt out or have a way to disable them from sending me voicemail.   I am hopeful that they start something like this for people who don’t want to be bothered with spam voicemails.

Have you had this done to you or know how to fix this issue?  Feel free to leave a comment below and tell me your experiences and what you did to solve this issue.    I’m curious to hear our story, why not leave a comment and tell me.   If you find this article informational then please feel free to share it on Facebook or other social networks!