This scam has been going on for a few years and outside the US as well, I just received another two such scam texts overnight. They pretend to send payment dema

This scam has been going on for a few years and outside the US as well, I just received another two such scam texts overnight. They pretend to send payment demands as local toll operators although links do not look convincing. I ended up logging a support ticket with my local telco 2-3 years back, and got a phone call back from an engineer who stated that the scam messages are mostly spread by infected (unpatched) Android phones that the malware runs on. The curious thing the engineer also mentioned was that they were applying mitigations on the telco side – to suspend the infected phones from accessing the mobile network and notifying the user of the problem. Although with many Android phones no longer receiving security updates any more, I am not sure what the recourse could be for an average user Joe.