Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Online scammers are sending the fake PCR My Order scam text below to potential victims with a link to pcr-my-order.com from a fake NHS contact tracing number. The aim of the Contact Tracing text scam, which claims the recipients have been in close contact with a confirmed case, is to frighten and trick them into clicking the link. The link goes to a phishing website that steals personal and financial information.
From: +44 7786 321936, 07786306316, 07786305514, 07786304978, 07786306487Contact Tracing: You have been identified as being in close contact of a confirmed case.You must book a test kit: hxxps://pcr-my-order.com
From: +44 7786 321936, 07786306316, 07786305514, 07786304978, 07786306487
Contact Tracing: You have been identified as being in close contact of a confirmed case.You must book a test kit: hxxps://pcr-my-order.com
On the phishing website, visitors will be asked to purchase a testing kit and will be asked for personal and financial information in order to do so. But, if the requested information is submitted, it will be sent to the scammers behind the fake text, who will use it fraudulently.
If you have been tricked into submitting your financial information by the PCR scam, please contact your bank for help.
If you have received the Contact Tracing scam text, post it in a comment below along with the telephone number is came from. This will help to inform others.
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I received the text at 2:52 am Sunday 27 March from 447786 306 3156
Yep, this happened to me, this is the number that sent the text 44 7786 304978
Text from 07786306377 Tracing Notifcation: You've recently been in close contact with a confirmed case. You must book a test kit: https://pcr-my-order.com ... they can't spell notification
SCAM … another one from pcr-my-order.com … obviously not NHS as from private mobile 07786 305514
Another contact scam from 4486304978
Scam ……PCR my order.com beware of 44 7786 306 487
Received a text from 07786 306316 this morning with the same message. I wouldn’t have believed it was genuine as no NHS reference but can understand why people might, especially if, like me, they have recently been on a plane.
447786304978 texted me at 04:34 on Sunday 27th March 2022.Message read "Tracing Notification: You've recently been in close contact with a confirmed case. You must book a test kit: https://pcr-my-order.com"I stupidly followed the link and they asked for NAME, ADDRESS, and then payment details. At this point, I sussed that it was a scam.BEWARE!!!! It's quite scary to receive these texts. BLOCK and DELETE the text, if you get one too.
44 7786 306377. - Tracing Notifcation: You've recently been in close contact with a confirmed case. You must book a test kit: https://pcr-my-order.comWas able to confirm this was a scam using this site, thank you
Thank you, you have verified that a text I have just received is a scam.
Watch out for this number:44 7786 321936
I got this from 07786305514
New number with the above scam: 447786306377
I received a text 07786 304978 notifying me of being in close contact with a Covid case … telling me to book a test kit at https://per-my-order.com…..SCAM…. I checked the number I didn’t recognise and realised it was fraud… PLEASE BE AWARE!!!
I always check numbers for messages I don’t recognise and so glad I did here. Just got a text message from 07786306487 “tracing notification - You’ve recently been in close contact with a confirmed case. You must book a test kit. HTTPS:/pcr-my-order.com”. Scam! Now blocked,
From: 44 7786 306487Text MessageToday 21:18Tracing Notifcation: You've recently been in close contact with a confirmed case. You must book a test kit: https://pcr-my-order.com
07786306316...this number as sent me the text about booking a pcr test today
Received text message you described above from following number: 07786304978Deleted message
19:09 Tonight(260322) 44 7786321936 sent the text you show above, became suspicious when they asked for bank details stopped inputting data.