Matt Burgess
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first heard Nov 2025
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Yeah, so over the last three years or so, this group called the Smishing Triad has emerged as one of the most prolific senders of scam messages.
And they are one of several groups of scammers that are known as smishing syndicates.
they've been estimated to be sending a hundred thousand messages per day they have around two hundred thousand malicious websites that have been linked to them and these smishing syndicates in general they develop their own software and they sell it to other cyber criminals who may be able to use that software to then go and scam people further you know almost in a plug and play style way you know i think some of these chinese language uh phishing scamming groups have actually been estimated to be making around a billion dollars in the last couple of years
There's a good chance of it.
The smishing triad has been linked to scam messages in more than 120 different countries.
And a big one that they do is impersonating in the U.S., the U.S.
Postal Service.
A text message from the Postal Service?
but around the world, they have also impersonated banks.
They've impersonated cryptocurrency platforms.
It looked like it's from Coinbase, sharing a withdrawal code.
It felt like someone was trying to take money from my crypto wallet.
E-commerce, healthcare, law enforcement,
all kinds of different organizations that may want you to take action such as clicking onto a website to confirm some details or to get your parcel sent back to you.
They are constantly evolving and constantly adapting their software becoming like targeting more different organizations or impersonating more different organizations.
So yeah, many people may be familiar with phishing to email accounts.
So really, when you're talking about smishing, that is just the SMS text message equivalent of that.
But I would say with smishing, because it is via text message and straight to your phone, you will have something that is pinging up.
Some of these
scam text messages are very successful because they are straight direct to you that you might you may be out and about and see a message come in and then like respond to it click on the link straight away without thinking about it so there's real that direct sense of urgency with a text message that you don't get with an email or another type of phishing scam
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