It takes a little bit of practice to spot the problem. So if you haven’t noticed, there are a few, problems with this message, here they are.
First, the URL does not use “https.” Nowadays any serious website should be using SSL which means the URL would start with https. Then the link doesn’t actually say “facebook,” it says “facebok.” But then you’ll notice that the “.com” part comes after a strange name, NOT facebook. This is NOT facebook.com
The domain is actually “com82759321.com” And they just added “facebok” at the beginning as a sub-domain.
This is kind of clever and it would fool a lot of people; it could even trap someone that is distracted and just clicks on things before realizing that they just clicked on a bad link.
This is why you NEVER click on a link you didn’t ask for or were not expecting until you are absolutely certain that the link is harmless. Better yet, just don’t click on it.
Thank you for a detailed article on how to get rid of these low life txt scammers. I have been getting a lot on my business phone line and this article will help me immensely. I don’t recommend this but as a noisy person I am, I love investigating…
First I search the number on Google to see if it was listed as a scam and if I don’t find anything, I copy the link and paste it on a browser which I don’t use so that way nobody can have access to the browser I do use regularly with the saved passwords, caches, temp files, etc but do watch out for typos…