Receiving odd texts for someone else? Rise of ‘wrong number’ messages is new payday for scammers

ronjor · May 2, 2025

Kevin Williams Apr 25 2025

An increasing number of seemingly random and innocuous texts are hitting Apple and Android device users.
The FTC says 22 percent of scams that result in monetary loss are originated via text, and that number is increasing, according to cybersecurity experts.
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AI is making “wrong number” text scams more common, and the best defense is no response, and reporting the text as spam.
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