Scammer Alert

[Anonymous]

Just had a text message from 'MYO2' quoted below:
"Hi Ken, we're having trouble verifying your account details. Head over to https://www.my-o2.com to avoid your services being suspended"
Sender: MyO2   no number

Web address is registered to
Registry Registrant ID: Not Available From Registry
Registrant Name: Juergen Precour
Registrant Organization:
Registrant Street: Kriegsstr. 222
Registrant City: Karlsruhe

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

This is a phishing text doing the rounds at the moment. We have had a few reports on the community about this the past couple of weeks 

[Anonymous]

Thanks for a swift response - I'm glad others are aware of it 🙂

[MI5]

One from yesterday linking to others.
O2 are looking into it https://community.o2.co.uk/t5/Discussions-Feedback/MY-O2-com-Is-A-scam/m-p/1029836#U1029836
Link tells you where to report it officially too.

[Cleoriff]

Follow the advice here @Anonymous

http://www.o2.co.uk/help/safety-and-security/fraud-and-phishing-advice

[MI5]

@Toby another phising website for the guys to look at.

[Bambino]

What's worrying is the number of people who are possibly responding to those texts. O2 needs to do something about this pronto.

[Cleoriff]

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@Bambino wrote:

What's worrying is the number of people who are possibly responding to those texts. O2 needs to do something about this pronto.

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Totally agree @Bambino. For every person who comes here to query them... I can only imagine there could be 100's of others who don't

[MI5]

Sadly there will be many caught out....

[Bambino]

We're only hearing from a very small amount of people who are either questioning these texts or are smart enough to know what they are. These texts could potentially be going out to millions of customers, if the scammers have gotten hold of customer lists, which it appears that they have. I'm surprised that this hasn't made the news.