HELLO!? 📱 Have you been receiving spam texts from your own Verizon number? -
Verizon customers have reported receiving mysterious messages over the past several days sent from their own phone number."It had my picture, it had my phone number, but it was sent to myself," says Neil Miller, of Plainview.
Security experts say most people are aware of fraudulent texts, but a message that comes from your own number could throw some people off. "That's the trick," says Mark Ostrowski, of Check Point Technologies. "That's what the scammers are trying to create--that level of trust"The Federal Trade Commission says if you get a scam text message, you should report it to them.
Verizon says it's aware of these messages and is now working with law enforcement to stop the fraudulent activity."As part of a recent fraud scheme, bad actors have been sending text messages to some Verizon customers which appear to come from the customers' own number. Over the past 48 hours, our company has made a significant effort to limit the current activity.
T-Mobile and AT&T tell News 12 that they are not seeing these kind of scam texts from customers' own numbers on their networks
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