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Ridgewood NJ, SMiShing is a social engineering tactic used to send spam or malicious text messages to deceive victims into believing the message came from a trusted person or organization and convince them to perform an action, such as revealing account credentials, downloading malware, or sending money. SMiShing messages may come from random phone numbers or email addresses and often use a sense of urgency to convince the target to take a desired action quickly. In addition, robotexts, which are automated text messages sent to mobile devices, are increasingly taking the spotlight as the federal government and telecom companies are trying to crackdown on this activity.
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