SMS Blasters: The Text Scam That Doesn't Just Steal From You, It Can Get People Killed
Most text scams want your money. This one can cause a stampede.
In this episode, we break down one of the most dangerous and least talked-about threats in digital safety right now, SMS blasters. These are portable devices, some small enough to fit in a backpack, that mimic a cell tower and blast fake text messages to every phone within range simultaneously. No list. No targeting. Just proximity.
And the texts look completely real.
Your bank. Your tax authority. Your postal service. An emergency alert system. Any sender, any message, to thousands of people at once; in a shopping mall, a…
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