Will Foret - Text Message Scams

THESE 3 WORDS IN A TEXT MESSAGE MEAN YOU’RE BEING SCAMMED — HERE’S WHY YOU SHOULD DELETE IT IMMEDIATELY

There is a certain phrase that should now get your Spidey sense tingling.  This three-word message is one that scammers rely on and could make you high-risk to fall for a scam text: “Would you kindly.”  It may seem like a friendly or harmless phrase, but your guard should go up immediately. Even the single word “kindly” should read as a red flag. “The word ‘kindly’ is simply something we don’t use in our common vernacular in the US,” Tim Bajarin, a 40-year veteran technology analyst, told Readers Digest in an interview.  “You’ll often hear it used in countries with British influence, perhaps once a colonial country, where English isn’t their mother tongue [such as Nigeria, India and Pakistan].”

Will is the CEO of Spot Migration, a premier cyber security and IT firm providing peace of mind for companies in the construction industry by solving their most complex technology and security challenges