Better Business Bureau advice: Don’t Click on that Link
Cellphone users deluged with scam messages . . . .
If you receive a text with a surprise offer don’t click on that link.
The Better Business Bureau scamtracker.has received reports about fake refunds and free subscriptions that offer too good to be true discounts.
Examples are “free subscriptions” and “little gifts” from Wal Mart, CostCo, AT & T, Verizon and other major companies.
“When you click on that click, what’s happening is you’re allowing them to download malware on your device,” says Stephanie Garland of the Better Business Bureau.
“If you have an app or if you log in on a website to pay your mortgage or your monthly rent you could actually be compromising yourself.”
Garland says what the thieves want to do is to offer you the biggest-possible hook to get you to click on the link. Then they can steal your money or charge thousands of dollars of products to your account.
For more information, go to BBB.org.