The sick text trick targeting parents

A bumper day for fraud stories in the news.

http://www.moneywise.co.uk/news/2014-06-24/scam-alert-the-sick-text-trick-targeting-parents?

Jun 24th

Moneywise has learnt of a distressing text scam targeting parents. The intended victim receives a text from an unknown number, which is actually a scammer posing as their child. The scammer texts that the child has been injured in a car accident and been forced to use someone else's phone.

The purpose of the scam is to get the recipient to send the fraudster a mobile phone top-up code