BANGKOK (NNT) - Recently, scamming sms have been sent to thousands of people in an attempt to acquire their financial information.

 

Deputy Secretary General of the Office of the National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission (NBTC) Mr. Sutthisak Tantayothi said today that if anyone receives an SMS attached to a link, don’t click on it, but look at the link as it is not spelt correctly unlike banks, and official websites. These links tend to use signs and Thai letters for English words or the other way round, in order to trick the sms receivers.

 

Another way to secure your information and be sure the sms is not a fraud is by calling the call center of the organization mentioned in the sms.

 

Mr. Sutthisak also stressed that Username, Password and OTP are what scammers are looking for as these three things are all they need to transfer money out of the victims’ bank account.

 

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T'is this year's latest in the scammers book of rip you offs .. 

I get loads but usually a give away will be incorrect spelling and punctuation in the top line visible without opening the message .. 

Another giveaway tends to be the first 4 digits of the number the message comes from .. 

17 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Another giveaway tends to be the first 4 digits of the number the message comes from .. 

The ones I get are not from a number..... one even claimed to be from Google once..