Office Of Fair Trade And The Text Scam
THE Office of Fair Trading has sent thousands of young people fake scam text messages warning them about con-artists.
“Urgent! U may have won £1k cash with ‘2 Good 2 B True’.”
In all 25,000 mobile phone users aged between 18 and 24 received a message telling them they might have won £1,000 in cash. A second message told the teens the first one was a fake and warned them about scams.
The best bit is that the Information Commissioner’s Office provided the OFT with numbers of 25,000 young people who have opted to receive marketing text messages.
Expect to read that the OFT has lost the details and anyone who receives a text message from the OFT should treat it with the utmost suspicion…
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Posted: 16th, February 2008 | In: Politicians Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
