Spokeswoman Andrea Brady said text scams were not unusual but the number of texts being sent out was “quite out of the ordinary”. ![]() The three phone companies all confirmed on Wednesday that their customers had been receiving large volumes of scam texts telling them they needed to click on a link to have a delivery redirected.Ģdegrees was first to raise the alarm on Wednesday morning. The Department of Internal Affairs said in a similar warning that it had received “thousands of complaints over the last 24 hours” about the texts. Spark said the scam texts were designed to propagate to people’s address-book contacts once clicked on.
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