Man, I'm really seeing an increase in the number of Scam Texts I get these days.
A few weeks ago I had a message about a parcel from NZ Post that had some issue with it - Exactly when I was eagerly expecting a parcel. Almost fell for that one.
Moving to Australia 2018, the frequency of scam texts and calls struck me almost immediately. It's a shame that the same thing is now hitting NZ more often.
The base problem is that there's minimal/no cryptographic authentication underlying SMS and caller ID, so spoofing these things and getting away with it is way too easy. Phone standards need to be modernised urgently (or just straight up deprecated in favour of IP-based solutions like WhatsApp/Signal/FB Messenger).
I avoid giving my phone number out to anyone if I can avoid it. Largely I have not had issues with spam calls or texts, though I have recieved the very occasional one.
I get at least half a dozen per week, i forward them all to DIA on 7726
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