{"id":63221,"date":"2024-05-11T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-11T01:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=63221"},"modified":"2024-05-10T13:26:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T05:26:17","slug":"smart-warns-customers-against-fake-rewards-scam-on-sms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2024\/05\/11\/smart-warns-customers-against-fake-rewards-scam-on-sms\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart warns customers against fake \u2018rewards\u2019 scam on SMS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Smart, the wireless unit of PLDT, warns the public about a new SMS modus urging customers to redeem their \u2018points\u2019 for \u2018premium rewards\u2019 before they expire by clicking the attached link that leads to a payment site. Smart denies ownership of the \u2018smart-com-ph\u2019 site mentioned in these fraudulent SMS. Smart has since reported the URL and blocked it from its network.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe remind our customers to double check the text messages that they receive. As a rule, Smart does not include clickable links in SMS sent to our customers. We urge our customers to report suspicious messages to official Smart platforms,\u201d said Alex O. Caeg, Head of Consumer Wireless Business at Smart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of its #CyberSmart awareness campaign, Smart reminds customers to be vigilant against scams:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Do not reply to unverified text messages.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Block or delete suspicious messages with links. Never open these links.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Scams often lure customers with too-good-to-be-true, attention-grabbing offers. These include winning the \u2018grand prize\u2019 of a raffle you don\u2019t recall joining.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Be wary of entities asking for personal or contact details, or any form of payment to redeem prizes or gifts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since Smart intensified efforts against criminal activities facilitated over wireless services, it has blacklisted nearly 200,000 mobile numbers involved in these scams in the first quarter of the year. It has also blacklisted close to five million malicious URLs tied to phishing, spams, and hoaxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you receive suspicious messages or calls, report them to cybersecurityincidents@smart.com.ph or to our verified social media pages &#8211; Smart Communications on Facebook and @SmartCares on X &#8211; or call our hotline *888.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since Smart intensified efforts against criminal activities facilitated over wireless services, it has blacklisted nearly 200,000 mobile numbers involved in these scams in the first quarter of the year. It has also blacklisted close to five million malicious URLs tied to phishing, spams, and hoaxes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":45550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[286,54,2103,343],"class_list":["post-63221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-it-security","tag-security","tag-security-breach","tag-smart-communications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}