Text Scam

Anonymous · ‎07-11-2017

I recently received a text apparently from O2, saying that I had been whizzing throiugh my data, and providing a link to Get the lowdown. I had in fact used very little data and this was a scam to get me to follow the link.

Coincidently I had last month, for the first time ever, requested additional data.

Could they have hacked this info from my phone or from O2, prompting the scam and how come the message came in on the same number as O2 texts?

MI5 · ‎07-11-2017

It's not a scam.
I had it too, also the following month after using my data.

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Anonymous · ‎07-11-2017

The link looked very suspicious - did you click on it and where did it take you?

MI5 · ‎07-11-2017

I can remember the address started with www.s.o2.co.uk because it looked strange.
I can't remember the rest of it though - all it did was take me to MyO2 to buy a data bolt on, which I didn't need

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Cleoriff · ‎07-11-2017

Hi @Anonymous Another thread about it here...Definitely not a scam https://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Pay-Monthly-and-Pay-Go/Phishing-or-legit-O2-text-message/td-p/1070970

Veritas Numquam Perit

MI5 · ‎07-11-2017

I remember that thread now.
I had my text shortly after.

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Marjo · ‎09-11-2017

Hi @Anonymous welcome to our forum! Thanks for posting about the text and your concerns - as our members pointed out above, we've checked this earlier and it seemed to be a legitimate text from O2.