Scam text

[Shallow_Mal]

Had a scam text, purporting to be from O2, claiming they were having problems taking the direct debit for our bill. It asked for a response via text to sort it out. I deleted the text, but O2 would only contact you about such issues via the app or email. Be warned, ok. 

[Enlli]

Well know Scam. 

Report the text by forwarding to 7726

[Sb70]

I had the one saying hi mum ive moved to 02 this is my new number , worryingly he has just moved to o2 but I new it was a scam , o2 you need to check your security , have reported to spam

[madasaf1sh]

@Sb70 

All the scammers do is get a spreadsheet with 10K lines, from 07000 000001 to 07000 010000 and send out a bulk text campaign, using either a PAYG sim or a 3rd party service. 

Nothing o2 can do, and nothing to do with o2 security, just how scammers work... and they hope to get a hit rate return of about 20% of all texts sent...

If i was of the nefarious sort, it wouldnt take me long to setup a campaign to send out a text to every o2 number..