Smishing

Smishing is phishing carried out by SMS, seeking to extract personal or bank data by posing as a trusted organisation.

In brief

Smishing is phishing carried out by SMS, seeking to extract personal or bank data by posing as a trusted organisation.

Going deeper

The term merges SMS and phishing. The scenario hardly varies: a message takes on the identity of a bank, a courier, an administration or an operator, to push you to click a link or call a number back.

The clues always recur: fake urgency, clumsy phrasing, a slightly altered site address, a request for bank details or a code received by SMS. The right reflex is to never click and to verify by going through the official site or app.

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SIM box (SIM farm)A SIM box is a rack of SIM cards that sends texts in bulk while constantly rotating numbers — the basic tool of industrial smishing campaigns.Reporting to 33700 (SMS spam)33700 is the French service that lets you report an unwanted SMS for free by forwarding it to this short code.

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