Clearly, some toll payment smishing perpetrators have succeeded in bypassing the filtering and security measures mobile companies provide for the protection of their customers. WRCB reports that exploiting a “loophole” in Apple security protocols is one method scammers have found to prey on iPhone owners. The article describes a ruse that fraudsters are using to pass smishing website links to message recipients. Its advice to iPhone users is “[a]void responding to any text messages you’re not anticipating, especially those that ask for a ‘Y’ or any other confirmation.”
