Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Scamming - Fraud
Recipients of the PCR Track and Trace scam text below from 07596863188 that goes to the website: pcr-track-trace.com, are asked not to click the link in it. The scam text, which claims recipients have recently been in contact with someone who has tested positive for Omicron, is being sent by cybercriminals who are attempting to frighten and trick their potential victims into visiting the fake and phishing NHS website that steals personal and financial information.
From: 07596863188Track and Trace Notification: You've been in contact with someone who has tested positive for Omicron. You need to book a test kit: pcr-track-trace.com
From: 07596863188
Track and Trace Notification: You've been in contact with someone who has tested positive for Omicron. You need to book a test kit: pcr-track-trace.com
If you have received the PCR Track and Trace scam text message, please delete it. Do not click the link in it. If you have already been tricked by the scam text and have submitted a financial information on the fake and phishing website you were taken to after clicking the link in it, please contact your bank for help.
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07596863187, differing from the phone number above by only the last digit.clicked on the link (cause it was 4am in the morning) and filled out all my information, but got the part where it ask for a credit card information to charge me £1.28 for a PCR kit. I changed to my desktop at that point and realized that that the pcr-track-trace.com is a scam website built with NGINX, with only a mobile interface but no desktop interface.
07596863188. Like others, the message 'warned' me that I had recently been in close contact with someone who had tested positive for Omicron and told me I needed to follow a link to order a PCR test kit. Unfortunately for them I had tested negative the day before so I wasn't fooled by these low-life scum of the earth criminals and their adolescent con
I also got a text from the above number which I did not question at first as I had just registered a test result on the NHS website yesterday. However, as I was not then asked to login, I began to be suspicious and checked here. Unfortunately I had already clicked on the link by then and given my address and dob.
Text received this morning. Thanks for confirming it's a scam. Luckily I did not click on the link
Hi.Unfortunately I did click on the link this morning and it said somethiing had been instaled on my phone. Not sure what to do now.
Although it said that, nothing was.
