Did you recently receive a text message from your phone number?
Do not click the link if it's true. You did not send it to yourself. Your phone carrier probably didn't send it to you either.
The company is investigating a mass text message campaign.
The team is working to block the messages that appear to come from the customer's own number. The customer is being worked on by the company to prevent the occurrence of the activity.
The tactic of spoofing a target's phone number is not new. The phone numbers from all carriers are vulnerable to these kinds of marketing messages. This particular campaign seems to be widespread among customers of the company.
It seems that the type of links being sent varies greatly, while all of the spam messages try to direct their targets to a link. Some customers have reported that they were sent a link to a fake survey. The target is being told that they need to click on a link to claim a free gift because they paid their phone bill. There is a attempt to send a message to the website of Channel One Russia, a Russian state-owned news network.
The FCC has seen a rise in complaints about the problem of text messages being sent to people's phones. It is not clear why this particular flood of text messages appears to be targeting a specific group of people. One of the largest wireless carriers in the U.S. is Verizon. AT&T is as well, yet the latter's customers don't seem to be experiencing this influx of text messages at the moment. According to the company, its systems have not been compromised in any way that would result in these texts being sent to their customers.
As new information comes out, the story will be updated. Readers, do not click on any links in your text messages that ask you to fill out surveys or give away free gifts.
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