Smishing Scams Are Getting a Major Glow-Up Thanks to AI 📱🤖🚨

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OK, listen up, fam. There's some sus stuff going down in the DMs – I'm talking about smishing scams. These are basically phishing scams, but through text messages. And guess what? AI is now involved, making these scams even more believable and harder to clock.

These scammers be using AI to write fire messages and dig up dirt on potential victims, so they can really hit you where it hurts. They'll slide into your texts pretending to be your bank, the post office, or even the tax peeps, saying you gotta "act now" or else something bad's gonna happen. It's all a big setup to get you to click on a link and hand over your personal info.

Here's the wild part: barely anyone's reporting these scams. Like, only 5-10% of victims actually tell the authorities. That's a major L, 'cause the more we report, the easier it is to catch these scammers.

So, what can you do to stay safe? The Competition Bureau is straight up saying: don't click on any links in sus texts. Forward that mess to 7726 (that's SPAM), delete the text, and block the number. And most importantly, just ignore the text altogether. Don't even give it the time of day.

The real tea? These scammers are hard to track down 'cause they be using burner phones and spoofing numbers, making it look like the text came from a legit place. So, it's up to us to stay woke and protect ourselves. Stay safe out there, y'all!