Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Scamming - Fraud
If you have received an NHS COVID Alert scam text message like the one below, please do not call the number(07484354543) in it. This is because the fake text, which claims the recipient has been in contact with someone who has COVID-19, is being sent by scammers who are attempting to trick their potential victims into visiting nhs-covid-alert.com, a phishing website that steals personal and financial information.
NHS: you've been in contact with someone who has COVID-19, please order a test kit via hxxps://nhs-covid-alert.com
So far, the following telephone numbers have been used in the same NHS COVID Alert scam text:
If you have received the NHS COVID Alert text scam, please share in a comment below to help others. Please include the telephone number it came from.
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Also got the text message last night from 07484 354543. The number looks like a spoof - the number check sites cannot find it, and the test webiste is not normal nhs style so I did not try it.
Received this text last night and typed in web address from main computer. Norton immediately identified a malicious web-site and blocked access. Searching for phone number text was from brought me here. I'm usually suspicious of any official looking message that comes from a mobile number but didn't initially notice that this time.
Just received one from 07306419311- very convincing
