The Rise of Mobile Attacks

80% of phishing sites now target mobile devices

Text Messages

Many of these types of scamming topics are the same-reducing debt, package delivery, and fake texts from businesses. One way to verify the legitimacy of these messages is by using a reverse lookup tool. This will reveal if others have received scam messages from the number.

Phone Calls

2024 will likely bring political donation scams. Scammers are also using fake caller IDs to mimic businesses. It is best not to interact with these phone calls. If you say anything- even just “yes” or “no”, the scammer will know the number is active and save it for future scams.

Voice Activated AI

Be careful when asking voice-activated AI services like Siri to call businesses or pull up websites. If a scammer has optimized their phishing page to appear at the top of search results, these tools may auto-dial the scammer’s phone number or pull up their website.

Why Mobile?

One of the many reasons why mobile devices are targeted is because users are often using them after a long day when fatigue has set in, and they are not as cognizant of what they click.

87% of people surveyed receive at least one scam message via text daily.

43% of financial scams in 2023 were phone scams like robocalls or text messages.

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