Emerging scam targets unsuspecting smartphone users with wrong-number text

The first instinct for many Utahns is to respond to a random text with "wrong number." But as News Specialist Andrew Adams reports, you may want to think twice before hitting send.

[iamanempoweredone]

If a text has an attachment of any kind from someone you don’t know, don’t open it

[patrik]

I noticed that some of the text appears to be obfuscated. Likely that the obfuscation varies from batch to batch, or even message to message, with the intention of defeating spam filters deployed by carriers.

[marymadeline]

I was getting scammers calling me and I got sick of it started talking in a foreign language and they couldn’t communicate so they hug up.

[adog]

I love getting those. I text them back using their tactic back. Every time I start doing exactly as they do. But I have a cool app that utilizes a false number that links the number to them so if they give the number to another it shows disconnected.

[donotneed]

I got something similar one night when I first started using a cellphone. I thought I'd be cute and see how far they'd go and asked for a nude picture. It's been well over a decade and I have not heard from them.

[elvia]

Yeah that happened to me a few weeks ago. I thought the "C" word 😉😱😱😱😱 and blocked it.

[DonaldMcLemore-nd]

What's funny is they keep saying "she". They bought at least some of it.

[allinyofeelings]

The scammers are out just received a text message thread exactly the same with the same pic and everything today on 2/22/22

[MrSlm]

Yeah I get about one a day now... Because I like to troll them, they are not all bots. Or at least not fully.