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every day we help you separate fact from fiction in a world full of misinformation and we ask you to text us your questions and like you we get a lot of spam text so we're going to show you some ways to identify a scam text message our sources our cyber security firm proofpoint the federal trade commission the fbi at t and amazon we're going to focus on smishing scams since they make up the bulk of scam messages smishing is a combination of sms for tax and phishing cyber experts say scammers often try to impersonate well-known companies or the government take this example claiming to be from california's employment development department or edd here's the first warning sign it comes from a random phone number that's not registering on caller id in this case it's a minnesota area code for a message about california the message also has an urgent tone that tries to make you act without thinking third there are punctuation problems and the text capitalizes the wrong words official texts are usually more professional finally there's the link at the end which has a url based in grenada and doesn't go to an official.gov site if you do get a suspected spam text verify it by contacting the sender using a trusted method if it turns out to be a scam the ftc says the best thing you can do is report it to your cell phone carrier never respond to the message or click on any links this includes replying no or stop because the bbb warns it tells a scammer they have an active phone number with your verify i'm brandon lewis