March Madness play begins this week, before the NCAA men's basketball tournament ends in Houston for the Final Four.
ends in Houston for the Final Four. With so much attention expected on the games, scammers will be focused on fans.
It's a built-in audience for scammers. "The scammers said, 'Boy, we are addicted to our phones', and we open those messages," says cybersecurity expert George Cray, of New Jersey firm iconectiv. He says, like the recent holidays, scammers are turning to text messages to get our attention, with messages that suggest we need to provide some bit of information to fix a problem.
With so many people willing to, simply, look at the text, thieves need just a few to react to make it worth their while.
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