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Re: Second verification scam Fwd: A Text Message Mess
- To: http://www.state.vt.us/~Flora. (Flora E ), http://profiles.yahoo.com/Flora (Flora E ), http://www.gmail.com/~flora (Flora E )
- Subject: Re: Second verification scam Fwd: A Text Message Mess
- From: robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>
- Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 13:27:05 -0700
- Cc: noelle <http://dummy.us.eu.org/noelleg>, http://www.gmail.com/~christopher1 (Chris), http://www.gmail.com/~drchrisbear (Chris), http://www.picis.com/~Chris (Chris), http://www.optum.com/~Chris (Chris), http://www.aol.com/~starsapphire68 (Amy), http://www.gmail.com/~369marnie (Marnie), http://www.myself.com/~Bhavani (Bhavani), http://www.juno.com/~bhavaniowl (Bhavani), http://www.gmail.com/~bhavaniowl (Bhavani), http://www.engineer.com/~w1few (Richard), http://www.juno.com/~w1few (Richard), http://www.icloud.com/~w1fewa (Richard), http://www.gmail.com/~alex. (Alexander ), http://www.umass.edu/~a (Alexander )
- Keywords: nastiesfile: @AOL.COM: Amy <http://www.aol.com/~starsapphire68>, http://www.gmail.com/~369marnie,, ifile: nonspam -5501.97776985 spam -5828.78629494 downloaded -7027.65684795 ---------
> From: Flora <http://www.gmail.com/~flora>
> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 15:52:17 -0400
>
> Don't let this happen to you if you have a second verification method.
Good point. Do not trust the caller ID of senders of SMS/text messages.
And, I would add: always assume that whatever you send via text message is
readable by everybody. (I doubt that there will ever be an encrypted
version of SMS.)
> Begin forwarded message:
> > From: "Federal Trade Commission" <http://www.subscribe.ftc.gov/~subscribe>
> > Date: July 1, 2015, 9:38:29 AM EDT
> > To: http://www.gmail.com/~flora
> > Subject: A Text Message Mess
> > Reply-To: http://www.subscribe.ftc.gov/~subscribe
> >
> > A Text Message Mess
> > by Kristin Cohen
> > Office of Technology Research and Investigation, FTC
> >
> > Let me set the scene: your friend John is rushing to get his daughter from
> > school and his son to the soccer field, and he still needs to stop at the
> > grocery store because thereâ??s nothing in the fridge. In the midst of this
> > everyday madness, he gets a text message from Google with a verification
> > code. He thinks, â??Thatâ??s weird. Maybe I should log in to my email and see
> > whatâ??s going on.â??