SMS Messages Exploited for Scams

This is a news story, published by MSN, that relates primarily to Google news.

tech giants news

For more tech giants news, you can click here:

more tech giants news

MSN news

For more news from MSN, you can click here:

more news from MSN

About the Otherweb

Otherweb, Inc is a public benefit corporation, dedicated to improving the quality of news people consume. We are non-partisan, junk-free, and ad-free. We use artificial intelligence (AI) to remove junk from your news feed, and allow you to select the best tech news, business news, entertainment news, and much more. If you like tech giants news, you might also like this article about

SMS messages

. We are dedicated to bringing you the highest-quality news, junk-free and ad-free, about your favorite topics. Please come every day to read the latest SMS news, legitimate cell towers news, tech giants news, and other high-quality news about any topic that interests you. We are working hard to create the best news aggregator on the web, and to put you in control of your news feed - whether you choose to read the latest news through our website, our news app, or our daily newsletter - all free!

SMS blasters

Android Police

•

Google explains how Android protects against stingrays, SMS blasters, and smishing

Summary

Nutrition label

60% Informative

Google explains how stingrays, SMS blasters, and smishing attacks are common in the real world.

Stingrays are devices that simulate legitimate cell towers that are being used in your area.

They knock down the connection from 5 G / LTE to an older standard known as 2G.

Once your device is connected to this 2 G network, messages will be sent your way in order to try and get you to reveal details about yourself or critical information about the accounts you're associated with.

VR Score

Informative language

Neutral language

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful