I received a text message tonight from this same phone number, 347-452-7352, message reads as follows:
"Your entry last month has WON! Go to http://bestbuywinners.mobi/ and enter code [xxxx] to claim your FREE $1000 Best Buy Gift Card now!"
The code wasn't literally XXXX, I just blocked it out because I don't want any part of the possibility that some unfortunately stupid people may stumble upon this page and start trying to claim these fake loans and gift cards they are "offering". The weird thing about this is I went to Best Buy recently, so I almost believed it for a second, but I ALWAYS research things like this because they are SO often scams. Who knows what happens to the unfortunate people who actually enter the codes, thinking they have won free money? Don't people know that almost NOTHING IS FREE THESE DAYS!? Especially if you didn't sign up for it!!!
What I'm wondering is how and why scammers have all these Verizon numbers... A few months ago, my mother and I both received texts claiming to be from a certain bank about an accounting error or something along those lines, for which we needed to text our information back in order to resolve the issue... Yeah, effing right!!! Thankfully we're smart enough to know a phishing scam when we see one, plus, we didn't use said bank so it was clearly a "cold-call" phishing scam (if you will...)
Is Verizon selling lists of phone numbers? Or are hackers stealing them? Either way, I'm hugely disappointed in Verizon for allowing their customers to be put at this kind of risk without sending out a mass warning message about the problem.