❤️Don’t respond to smishing messages, even to ask the sender to stop contacting you.You should contact any bank, government, agency, or company identified in the text message using the information listed in your records. Scam artists often use email-to-text technology, short codes, or spoofed local numbers to hide their identity. ❤️Don’t call a telephone number listed in an unsolicited text message.Clicking the link may infect your mobile device with a virus or malware designed to steal the personal or financial information stored on the device. ❤️Don’t “click” open links in unsolicited text messages.Smishing scams attempt to create a false sense of urgency by implying that an immediate response is required or that there is a limited time to respond. ❤️Government agencies, banks, and other legitimate companies never ask for personal or financial information, like usernames, passwords, PINs, or credit or debit card numbers via text message.The agency will never demand immediate payment using a gift card, prepaid debit card or wire transfer or threaten to have a taxpayer arrested."ĭon’t be misled by smishing scams. "The IRS doesn't send unsolicited texts or emails. The phone number that received the text message".Date/time/time zone that they received the text message.
If people visit the fake website and enter their personal and financial account information, the scammers collect it.Here's what people should do if they receive this messageĪnyone who receives this scam text should take a screenshot and include the screenshot in an email to with the following information : It takes people to a fake website that looks like the IRS.gov Get My Payment website. This fake link appears to come from a state agency or relief organization. Further action is required to accept this payment… Continue here to accept this payment …" The text includes a link to a phishing web address. People get a text message saying they have "received a direct deposit of $1,200 from COVID-19 TREAS FUND. The thief's goal is to trick people into revealing bank account information under the guise of receiving the $1,200 Economic Impact Payment.Here's how this scam works The IRS and it's Security Summit partners are warning people to be aware of a new text message scam.
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