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SMS are a large part of our daily life, most of us preferring to get rid of a quick message instead of getting the phone these days. Thanks to its prevalence, crooks also haveTapped in SMS To try their last projects, and unfortunately, they have become very good to deceive their victims. Now the police warn against a fraudulent message that could appear on your phone. Read the continuation to find out which text you will want to search and why the police urge you to avoid clicking on it.

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The concerns about the labor market and dismissals are palpable, as fears of a recession persist and the federal reserve continues to increase interest rates in order to slow down inflation. That said, the country is in a better place now that it was at the height of the pandemic, when unemployment has reached heights of all time. According to the American work statistics office, in the second quarter of 2020, theunemployment rate Jumped 13% drugs.

Although we are not yet completely out of the woods when it comes to COVID, the unemployment rate has since fallen to 3.5% in July 2022, whichcorresponds to the pre-pandemic rate In February 2020, the US Labor Ministry confirmed in a press release on August 5, but this number includes a total of 5.7 million Americans who have no job, many of whom depend on unemployment benefits To get help.

Now crooks take this vulnerability.

If you get an SMS from a state department or other authority figure, you probably take it seriously. However,Danté Bartolomeo, Commissioner of Connecticut Department of Labor (CTDOL), warns residents of a new text scam in which fraudsters send you a message on unemployment payment. According to a press release of August 22, the texteducates the declarants "To verify their identity in order to process their unemployment payment."AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

The message seems to come from Reemployct, but by clicking on the link, you are then taken to an address ".NET", the press release said. This is a revealing sign of fraud, because unemployment accounts can only be accessible via Reemployct.com, warned the agency. If you fall into this stratagem, crooks can access your personal information.

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Unemployment requests will never be carried out by SMS or via social media, according to Bartolomeo. "We do not check the identity by the text or on social networks," he said in the press release. "We do not ask for account information or personal identification information on the text or social media."

But the CTDOL said that it "expects the variations in this text message to proliferate" and the authorities already see this PAN. This scam was also reported in Indiana.

On July 25, the Indiana state police (FAI)published a press release Warning of an idiot. The same general structure is used - the message seems to come from the Indiana labor department, says that you have non -claimed state funds and asks you to click on a link that brings you to a Web page asking you to enter personal information.

The ISP confirmed that the Ministry of Development of Indiana labor does not communicate on the advantages or payments not claimed by SMS or by e-mail.

The ISP has urged residents not to click on unknown links or to provide information to an "unknown sender", because your private accounts and data could eventually sell on the Dark web.

The CTDOL works with the police at the level of the state and the federal government to protect citizens from scams like these, but if you suspect that your account or that the information has been compromised, you are invited to call the local police. If you think someone has fraudulently deposited the benefits under your name, you must also report it to the Ministry of Labor of your State.

According to the ISP, the best way to protect yourself and your information in these cases is to ignore or delete the message. Rather than engaging or responding to the text, the CTDOL recommends looking for the organization's contact information in order to confirm the identity of the sender. CTDOL and cybersecurity experts also emphasize the importance of "regular account maintenance", which includes the use of different and solid passwords for your accounts and the modification of passwords regularly.