A recent phishing campaign targeting customers of several major U.S. banks was powered by text messages directed recipients to call hacked phone lines at Holiday Inn locations in the south. Such attacks are not new, but this one is a timely reminder that phishers increasingly are using lures blasted out via SMS as more banks turn to text messaging to communicate with customers about account activity. According to Cloudmark, the incidence of SMS bank account account account phishing in the United States tripled in September 2014.”]
Source: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/02/hacked-hotel-phones-fueled-bank-phishing-scams/