SMS Spam: You are the lucky winner of a $30,000 lottery

An entirely bogus SMS is circulating in Australia advising of a US $30,000 lottery windfall and instructing recipients to log on to a website with a username and password contained in the message,

According to smh.com, the lottery spam follows a rash of nuisance text messages hitting British users - many of them tempting recipients into calling 1900 numbers with romantic or raunchy messages.

So far the messages have been text only, but with picture messaging becoming widely available, it is only a matter of time before visual temptations will also be used.

emily | 1:27 PM | Spam, Viruses and Hoaxes |
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