Smishing
SMS phishing — social engineering by text message.
Smishing is phishing delivered by SMS/text, exploiting the trust and immediacy of mobile messages and the difficulty of inspecting links on a phone. Common lures impersonate banks, parcel-delivery services, or a “CEO” urgently requesting gift cards. Because mobile clients hide full URLs and security tooling is thinner on phones, defenses lean on user awareness, carrier spam filtering, and a policy of never acting on links or requests received by text.
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