Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Scamming - Fraud
The fake Verizon(VZN) text message below, with a link to the malicious website - coveringwforest.com, is a scam. The fake text, which claims there is special a rebate from Verizon of $200, is being sent by scammers or cybercriminals who are attempting to trick their potential victims into clicking the link in it, which goes to a phishing or malicious website.
Thank you for your payment! Please accept our offer special rebate from VZN of $200. coveringwforest.com/?#yYVk1DK
The malicious website that the link in the text goes to will attempt to trick visitors into downloading malware, or steal their personal/financial information. Therefore, recipients of the text scam are asked not to click the link or follow the instructions in it.
So far we have received the Coveringwforest scam text from the following telephone numbers:
If you have received the text scam, please share it in a comment below along with the telephone number it came from.
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(571)-262-1116 sent me this same message. The link wasn’t to coveringforest though, it was to modernkill.com. I figure everything is a scam, so thankfully didn’t click it.
Received today from 860-919-0374Thank you for your payment! Please accept our special rebate from VZN of $200 equationcvmechanic.com/?#fFS2MNt
Thank you for your payment! Please accept our special rebate from VZN of $200 drumxtstrengthen.com/?#aPW4AKz(425) 647-1091
I received a message from phone number 425-681-0361 The text said thank you for your payment please accept our special rebate from VZN of $200 electricmvweather.com/?#4qN1bKr
Received on 9/23 @ 8:10pm EST. From (323)388-2295 with link of "incisionrichance.com/?#SW3x0Sc"
Received from 206-518-0198 at 4:29pm. Attached link was reflectlstartz.com/?6hJdAmc
Got one this morning from 914-417-0992 that said the same thing above about thanking me for my payment, $200 vzn rebate with the same link attached.
I just received the same scam from phone number 914-417-0992 and a link to Combingingpurchase.com
Received on 9/23 at 2:27 AM! From (206)471-1418 with link of "exposureekingv.com/?#xkbfFX1"
Same message - sent from 281-409-0580 with chasezprecedent.com?#fe8TR5X as the link.
Received from 1-425-647-1091
