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Originally Posted by malleusdemonium
This is an MITM attack (man in the middle). DO NOT RETRIEVE MESSAGE. When you answer or retrieve the message, they connect with your device and upload any info they want to their device. They are capable of listening in to any conversations and also retrieve any texts PPI repayments texts and calls are exactly the same thing. DO NOT REPLY TO IT!!! As soon as you do, there are three people in the room.
If you've answered these texts/calls and make a call to a company number (0500) etc., any number where you are likely to make a purchase, your call will be intercepted by the MITM attacker who will impersonate the call-centre employee, even with pre-recorded background noise. 'Hello, my name is ----, how can I help you today'? Your name is the first thing to be asked, your postcode is the next. They now have a geographical location for their victim, and the trawling for information starts. If you give them your card numbers it's all over. Remember, they don't know who you're calling, they just go by the number's characteristics, so if they don't say the name of whatever company you're calling, hang up.
Sadly, the only way to rid yourself of this parasite is to change your number; the problem being that if you've replied/retrieved this message, they already have the contents to your address book, so as soon as you send your contacts your new number, you inadvertantly send the MITM attacker your number too. This is a really nasty and hugely underestimated scam. As difficult to shake as Malaria.
The main problem in preventing the MITM attacks, is the phone companies not wanting to share their encryption/delivery methods of their trade and therefore the MITM attackers have free reign over their customers, safe in the knowledge that the phone company isn't going to do a damned thing about it. Hope this helps. Peace.
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This is not BT. Put 0845 602 1111 in Google.....
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First things first. Welcome to the forum.
OK. I seriously doubt that the average man in the middle attack could get access to your phone through what is essentially a voicemail system. BT's text to speech service is a voicemail system that reads your texts. They won't get access to the phone, as their message does not reach the phone in it's original format (or any binary format). Similarly, they won't get your location (beyond narrowing down to the area covered by your exchange, which they can from the number anyway).
Finally, I did put that number into google. One of the pages returned was
http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/d...s-with-bt-text, so, yes, it is a BT number.