SMiShing Scam

With a buzz, your phone lets you know you got a text. You take a peek. It’s from the U.S. Postal Service with a message about your package. Or is it? You might be looking at a smishing scam. “Smishing” takes its form from two terms: SMS messaging and phishing. Effectively, smishing is a phishing attack on your phone. Scammers love these attacks year-round, and particularly so during holiday shopping rushes. The fact remains that…