Thanks
@Oldvatr ,
Seen a few on the news regarding substandard "knockoff" COVID essentials the other night?
We are not talking about football shirts or DVDs..
Keep well.!
Thanx. Another scam in the news this morning
Text message on mobile phones stating that the reader has recently been exposed to an active source of Covid-19, and giving a contact point that is faked to look like an official government site but again is a spoof copy set up to get personal data. They seem to be working from a blacklist of hacked phone numbers since the text as read by the recipient mentions them by name, but ask for identity verification to be made 'for confidentiality purposes'. Sometimes this is in the form of 'Is this you?' so you are confirming your name is associated with a phone number they already hold.
These scams seem to be well presented and will fool many into believing they are being informed as part of the proposed monitoring measures being discussed on TV etc. So beware. Those measures are not yet in place so that is the elephant in the room. Will not be so easy to dismiss once the measures are legitimately introduced as being hinted at by the current news outlets
