Text received - SCAM???

[Phill666]

HI

I received a text earlier from +447552401361

O2:We were unable to process your latest bill.  Inorder to avoid fees, please update your payment information via: [link removed]

This link then displays all blank  fields for personal information to b entered.

Obviously I didnt do this - If not aware already customers need warning

And this policing

[Bambino · Accepted solution]

@Phill666 

It's a well known scam
Block the number and report it free to 7726.
Don’t open any links or enter any information.
O2 advice here:

https://www.o2.co.uk/help/safety-and-security/phishing-and-smishing-advice
https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/

How to block a number:

https://www.samsung.com/us/support/answer/ANS00062352/

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201229

[jonathansowden]

How do these scammers know we are with O2?

Why dont O2 do something to prevent them being able to SMS O2 clients?

Last year I was one of the hundreds caught out by the NEXGEN scam, a problem O2 had been aware of for 18 months and did nothing about. O2 have a duty of care to protect customers and are doing nothing about these scams, often taking a cut (as they did with nexgen) from the amounts paid by gullible customers.

[MI5]

They only know the number originated on O2, not that it still is, hence people that have ported out to different networks are getting them saying they are from O2.