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My 89-year-old mother uses a T-mobile prepaid plan on her flip phone. A text message that addresses her by name might fool her into getting phished. Plenty of “
by fortran77 4y ago
My 89-year-old mother uses a T-mobile prepaid plan on her flip phone. A text message that addresses her by name might fool her into getting phished. Plenty of “personal information״ has leaked.
- SoftTalker 4y agoI have an AT&T plan. I get lots of message claiming to be from AT&T, all get ignored and blocked. I don't trust any message from anyone not in my address book. Even then, sender can be spoofed, but it's less likely.
- fortran77 4y agoYeah, but my mother is incapable of managing an address book or using a smartphone with those types of features. In the past I told her to ignore every text message no matter how urgent or convincing it looks. Fortunately, she can't figure out how to read old messages so once a message times out and disappears from the screen she won't see it again.