Re: [GLLUG] SMS text scam warning
On Monday, 26 April 2021 14:45:54 BST you wrote: > Hi, > > I received the classic post office scam sms message. > I forwarded it to 7726, and to be fair, the web site was taken down > fairly quickly. > > Kind Regards > > James > I woul hope that they were able to do rather more than just take the website down. Unfortunately a very high proportion of the junk I have received appears to point directly to Russia. -- Chris Bell Website https://chrisbell.org.uk -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] SMS text scam warning
Hi, I received the classic post office scam sms message. I forwarded it to 7726, and to be fair, the web site was taken down fairly quickly. Kind Regards James On Sat, 24 Apr 2021 at 10:11, Chris Bell via GLLUG wrote: > > Hello, > bbc.co.uk/news/technology have relayed a warning from GCHQ about huge numbers > of messages sent to UK mobile phones claiming that there is a parcel on its > way, please download the "app" to get tracking details. It is nothing to do > with a parcel, the "app" is spyware aimed mainly at Android phones. > -- > Chris Bell > Website https://chrisbell.org.uk > > > > -- > GLLUG mailing list > GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
Re: [GLLUG] SMS text scam warning
On 24/04/2021 11:26, John Edwards wrote: Hmmm, On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 11:12:12AM +0100, Fred Youhanaie via GLLUG wrote: It is worth subscribing to one or more of their various RSS feeds, listed at https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/information/rss-feeds "You need to enable JavaScript to run this app." (And there is nothing in the content of the page that really needs JavaScript, just 4 links to xml files) I imagine the rest is just part of the general content framework, such as "was this page helpful? Yes/No"! The downside of the modern web pages, however, I've seen worse :( Cheers, Fred -- GLLUG mailing list GLLUG@mailman.lug.org.uk https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/gllug
