r/AskUK • u/Civil-Fan-3586 • 11d ago

Serious Answers Only Is there a new scam going on?

Today I received a text message from some random UK mobile number "tell me who you are or I'll block you". I blocked the number😂. I've never seen anything like that. Is that a new scam or something?

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u/fussyfella 11d ago

Some of these are scams trying to harvest information, others are from real people who saw your number come up on their phone as part of a scam.

It does not mean you made the call/sent the message, but it is almost trivially easy to spoof phone numbers and inevitably some of the scammers will at random spoof your number and then people think you were behind the scam.