How to Protect Yourself Against Smishing Attacks
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Smishing is the SMS-based version of phishing attacks, and targets individuals through text messages, instead of emails. The average adult smartphone user, aged from 18 to 24, sends a staggering number of 2,022 texts each month, which averages to 67 messages per day, and receiving 1831 texts monthly. The rapid frequency with which SMS messages are sent and received each day makes the text message the perfect medium to utilize in the propagation of an attack. Smishing attacks utilize a highly popular technological medium to propagate their scam, namely- text messages.