It
turns out that a member of our Threat Research
team has also received such a message, back in
January — he saved it.
Here's
what it looks like:
Here's ukmobilelotto.com:
Google Apps?
The (cloud
friendly) scammers probably built and paid for it
using stolen funds.
So what happens if
you call the number?
Believe it or not,
there's actually somebody on the other end of
these phone numbers that answer if called. If they
think you sound vulnerable, they'll attempt to
scam you in a variety of ways.
We
called the number from Topi's SMS with one of our
"burn" phones and uploaded the results to the
Labs'
YouTube channel.
Heh, guess he didn't like that we
were calling from Helsinki.
If you
receive a text message such as this, the best
course of action is to do a Web search for the
sending number. It doesn't take very long before
you'll find some crowd-sourced information,
typically on websites such as
WhoCallsMe.