Please Call Spam SMS Text Messages from Vtext.com

What could he be doing on these type of sites

I have an email today from Bank Of America:

"11501 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90025, USA

Tell: 1(619) 485-2893

FOR YOUR INFORMATION: BENEFICIARY.

After yesterday's board meeting of the management of this bank, Ministry of Finance, Internal Revenue Service of the United States (IRS), The Reserve Bank and the World Bank Directorate it was gathered that your overdue compensation fund worth US$27.000.000.00 million has been deposited with this bank for onward payment/ transfer to your designated/choose bank account. the reason for this is because your name was among the scam victims that lost a lot of money to African and European Fraudsters, you are hereby advised to without delay stop all contact going on between you and anybody on internet because you will end up at nothing.

RE-CONFIRM YOUR BELOW DETAILS."

Who are they? Is this legitimate?

No, it is not legit, it is a scam.

I got a vtext.com text from 1 (410) 100-001 stating this:

FRM:
2064982597-vtext.com
MSG: You have a critical update on your account:
hxxp://goo.gl/i5jmjH

This threw me off big time considering I'm an AT&T customer and not a Verizon customer.

Received the following text on my AT&T cell phone:

"FRM:2163138535-vtext.com
MSG:Your Facebook account requires immediate confirmation, please follow this link: https://goo.gl/svQkrV"

The link goes to the following malicious website:
hxxp://m.facebook.com----securelogin----account ----confirmation--151183405.xmahasi5.com/

My sister which is disabled received a text on her cell phone last night stating that her debit/credit card had been locked due to suspicious activity, she started getting really upset because she doesnt have a Wells Fargo account but just happened to have used an ATM at a Wells Fargo while out of town.

I automatically realized that this was a scam and tried to keep her from getting to worried about the text. Today when I arrived at work I decided to google the text information just to see if anyone else had reported such a scam. Its sad that people are doing this and taking advantage of so many people who dont second guess the intentions of a text when it says it comes from such a trust worthy banking establishment.

Let those people who might not think twice before calling a number when receiving text like this know that no bank card is connected with your cell phone number, especially when the bank who is supposedly texting you isnt even your banking institution, and report such activity to help others not fall victim to these scams.