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The real goal of the scam is to give the criminals access to your bank account information, police say. The text messages are the latest phishing scam targeting victims across the country ...

A new text message scam is beginning to circulate ... we will deposit the amount into your bank account,” Rackliffe said. So why would someone fall for this? In December, the IRS announced ...

Scammers target potential victims through a text messaging scheme that claims the target is entitled to a $1,400 stimulus ...

But he questioned how he could identify if those messages were from the bank or also a scam — revealing the impossible situation victims find themselves in. Mr Cropp said he received an offer ...

Of course, if you receive a text message that appears to come from a bank at which you do not have an account, you can be confident it is a scam. If the text message provides for you to respond to ...

"Text message scams are undermining the SMS communications ... 115 million per annum is attributed to scam texts," it added. Bank of Ireland has welcomed the ComReg announcement.