Matt Burgess
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first heard Nov 2025
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When cybercriminals are collecting phone numbers or other contact details, they can be purchasing these on underground markets, on forums, potentially from data breaches where...
We've all seen people having their details linked elsewhere or possibly even data brokers.
And then when it comes around to them sending the messages, they're quite often using automated software on a device such as a laptop or a computer where they can have multiple sort of virtual phones running on their screen at the same time and send out multiple thousands of messages from those accounts.
What happens when you click that link?
You'll end up on a website.
So if this scam message is coming from allegedly the U.S.
Postal Service, you will end up on a website that looks like the U.S.
Postal Service.
You'll end up on a website that looks like the bank that scammers are trying to impersonate, which want you to enter your personal details.
They might want you to enter your name, your postal address, your bank account details, your financial details, and then
that the scammers will be collecting these pretty much in real time.
You're not going to get texts from that same number, but you may get texts from another number or another account that is trying to scam you.
So I think that the scale that these scams are happening, people are going to continue to receive scam messages pretty much, like, on a very frequent basis.
I think there are a few players that are involved in trying to reduce the amount of scams that are happening around the world.
So you've got the telecoms firms, the companies that own the networks.
These websites have to be hosted with a domain company.
So those domain companies can be better at blocking scam websites as well.
And then, yeah, you've got Apple and Google and other mobile providers as well.
A lot of them now are using on-device machine learning to be able to detect the
kind of language that is used in these scams and they are able to better classify some of these scams from happening.
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