What is Smishing?

Sourced by: Terranova Fortra Security

Smishing is a cyber crime that uses manipulative text messages to steal people's confidential personal and corporate information, similar to phishing emails.

Cyber criminals send carefully-worded text messages to the victim, urging the victim to respond or to take further action. The text message might ask the victim to confirm delivery of an Amazon order or ask the recipient to click a link to finish registering in a new government program.

The ultimate goal of any smishing tactic is the same – to compromise people by stealing confidential information. Smishing relies on social engineering to get victims to respond and take action.

Using urgent language, the text message may threaten the victim with severe consequences if they don’t take action or convince the victim that they’re helping the sender by providing the requested information.

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