Woman Ignored Scam Texts About Overdue Bills. Turns Out They Were Real

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agency · 2h ago

I recently had similar experience where a legitimate text from my insurance company was 100% indistinguishable from a scam text, directing me to a link on allstate.yem.bo. You would think it would be in an insurance company's interest not to train their users to click on scam links but what do I know.

mksybr · 2h ago

Why would it be against their interest? Do they lose money somehow?

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Woman Ignored Scam Texts About Overdue Bills. Turns Out They Were Real

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