Over the past three hours I have had hundreds of non-stop automated phone calls and text messages from websites I’ve never visited giving me login validation code numbers. Again, these are for sites I’ve never visited. In some cases (such as Jersey Mike’s) the calls start with the supposed name of the user they’re calling.
I can’t figure out if this is a service provider bug or a scam. If it’s a scam, I don’t see the angle. No one is getting the code number but me and I’m not entering it. I don’t even know the user credentials they’re calling/texting about. I thought perhaps it was harassment or more feasibly an effort to distract me from some sort of real fraud by drowning me in nonsense but I don’t see anything like that happening at the moment.
And I can’t figure out how to make it stop. Because of the repeated calls the numbers are breaking through Do Not Disturb and I am continually blocking new numbers.
Anyone else seeing this today?
This is a failed Sim swap attack where they were not able to get a hold of your Sim.