Phishing text

[Hells60]

I am unable to send a phishing text to 7726 , message send failure ?? Help ! 

[MI5 · Accepted solution]

@Hells60 

You may have a block on your account which you need to check with customer service. 
Alternative methods and help here https://www.o2.co.uk/help/safety-and-security/phishing-and-smishing-advice

[Bambino]

@Hells60 We've seen hundreds and hundreds of posts about phishing texts recently. O2 doesn't seem to be able to do much about them, so I wouldn't worry too much about not being able to forward the text to them.

[Hells60]

Ok , thank you .

[Hells60]

Ok , thank your.

[Hells60]

Ok , thank you .

[BennyS]

Me too.  I have just tried to report an apparent HMRC tax refund text to the 7726 number and also had it fail.

I have seen the answer given, but I'm not going to go through the whole O2 security process just to report something that should have already got through.  I think rather ridiculous for O2 to have a spam reporting number that doesn't work outside of any bar on an account against, I assume, premium text messages.

Hopefully someone at O2 might read this and fix it, so the whole point of hvaing the 7726 free to send to number works for all.