Bank phishing text spam made up more than 30% of the more than 480 million SMS junk messages sprayed on mobile phones in the U.S. in May. The Federal Trade Commission cracked down on gift card spam in March. A curious SMS spam campaign was discovered this week by ThreatTrack Security. It masquerades as a message from Google informing its targets that either their Google or Gmail account has been hacked. The campaign hasn’t been going on since March, but it’s not quite a mystery.”]
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