Smishing Scammers
Complaint 167997 Details

Based on the topic in the weekly email about bogus bestbuy smishing attacks, I went back through my phone to review all cases of smishing that I could find to add to the evidence. In addition to best buy, one time they used 'Target' as the company for the $1000 gift card. I am also including an earlier attack that may not have been related. I complained to my carrier in March, but was underwhelmed by their concern, and did not bother to repeat complaining on subsequent spams. My only notible damages are from my personal time to report/ignore the spams. I did not click or reply to any of them.

Details:

9/11/2012 313-717-1805 only got part 2 of msg, no URL

7/20/2012 816-200-1718 www.bestbuy.com.txcv.biz

7/8/2012 202-709-4622 www.target.com.tltz.biz

5/31/2012 719-304-1805 www.bestbuy.trgx.biz "Txt '0' to stp"

5/31/2012 678-208-7179 www.bestbuy.com.trgx.biz "Txt '0' to stp"

5/16/2012 617-528-0623 www.bestbuy.com.bsqx.biz "Only 124 left. Txt stp to s"

9/16/2011 924-665-03 "p1|0t_3d4n: Check (Link Removed)" with 7 characters after ? - but because of the %, the full URL did not get inlcluded on the smart-phone link, only the 73pot.com on.