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I got a text stating I have money to be deposited from that number. When I look at my bank records I don't have any transfers with the amount it says. When I click the link I get a warning that it is ...
I got a similar message with a shortened URL https://is<dot>gd/akrm1g1h0r telling me my netflix service is disabled. When I unshortened the URL and checked it, it was "https://telus<dash>noreply<dot>info/ which appears to be a real TELUS site, but I didn't select it.
Report the text, see my above post. Although I've already reported that same number
- Highly doubt Telus would redirect you to a website to verify bank info. If anything they’d give their customer support number or tell ya to login into your MyTelus account.
Have since received and reported many SMS fake messages to TELUS, there is a lot more of this stuff floating around out there than there used to be. Email is also getting sneakier, we all just have to be extra vigilant and only go to official sites to check things, am at the point now where I never check/click on any links in messages, just go to the official site for whomever and log in...
enb54 wrote:I got a similar message with a shortened URL https://is<dot>gd/akrm1g1h0r telling me my netflix service is disabled. When I unshortened the URL and checked it, it was "https://telus<dash>noreply<dot>info/ which appears to be a real TELUS site, but I didn't select it.
How did you come to that conclusion? It is not a Telus domain. That domain was created today and uses a sketchy registrar Porkbun LLC
Sorry, did not check further, just used an expander to get the domain, should have dug deeper. These crooks are getting trickier every day, I just tell people to not click on any link in any message that allegedly comes from any supplier, go to an official web site first. In today's supposed Netflix message I went to the Netflix site and checked, there was no cancellation of service, plus first I did report to TELUS 7726...
