The Office of Fair Trading are sending out fake scam SMS messages to help raise awareness of text scams. The messages aer being sent to young people aged between 18 and 24, as it is estimated that six per cent of all victims of mass-marketed scams each year are aged between 15 and 24.
First of all, a text was sent reading “Urgent! U may have won £1k cash with ‘2 Good 2 B True’.” Another text then followed, explaining that the first message was a fake and that the OFT sent it to warn about mobile phone text scams. Mike Haley, director of consumer protection at the OFT, said the organisation hopes the fake scam texts will remind young people to be on their guard if they encounter dubious offers similar to this.
Our thought is: who do you contact to stop receiving these spam messages?