As already reported by Index, SMS scams have reared their heads again here in recent months. We wrote earlier about foreign and Hungarian phone numbers both of them About the letters sent, in which it was written that the delivery of a certain mattress package failed, but the names of Revolut, Netflix and other major service providers were also abused.
The messages may have deceived unsuspecting users in some cases, but for the most part it was clear that it was a scam, as they were often written in a non-Hungarian language, contained no accents, and what was more, there were misspellings. Including.
On the other hand, the SMS messages that are currently spreading represent a whole new level, because they are identical to the format of the original messages sent by service providers one-to-one, except for the link in the message.
For example, OTP Bank also sends a message similar to the one below, but the link ending in “.com” may already be suspicious.
It is also happening more and more these days that fraudulent messages are received from phone numbers from which real service providers, such as Facebook or Google, have sent the confirmation codes needed for 2-Step Login – giving users the false impression that the SMS they may have received will be reliable.
do not care about them!
Fraudulent messages are usually characterized by:
- Incorrect wording, not Hungarian, which may have been made with a translation program;
- not using accents, misspellings and spelling errors;
- A link at the end of a message that uses diacritics, Cyrillic or Chinese characters;
- If the scammers claim to be an organization headquartered in Hungary, the “.com” ending shown above;
- SMS is received from a foreign phone number.
The best thing to do with such messages is to ignore them completely or delete them entirely.
In most cases, if you click on the link, you will do nothing wrong, here scammers usually ask for sensitive data, such as bank account number, CVC code or account password – you should never enter this data, but for your own security , it is better if you do not open the link either.
