Hello,
I have been forwarding my spam email-to-SMS to @FidoStephen via PMs to help improve the spam filter for sms.fido.ca
Recently, another community member also posted a similar spam SMS they received. Perhaps a thread dedicated to collecting examples of these types of SMS spam might also help improve the spam filter.
Thoughts?
Cheers
Hey @Lijo4u,
Welcome to our Community!
I moved your post on this existing thread since it's on the same subject, you can find more info here!
Hello,
I already reported this SMS to 7726, but posting here for the benefit of the community...
Hope this helps 
Cheers
I've tried sending this to 7726 (SPAM), but text to that number fail.
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Important Notice from Fido,
You have received Fido Dollars
fidpayloli.com
Deposit your Funds!
Gladly serving our
Customers.
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Supposedly from 1(418)490-3020
Hey @Mogsdad!
If you're able to send and receive text messages, you should have no issue forwarding this SMS to 7726 :).
This can be done on most devices by opening the message, pressing and holding the body of the message, then choose to forward and send it to 7726. Be careful not to click on the link by mistake.
Hope this helps.
I received a SMS from a phone number 1 418-436-0346 (See below). I think this is a possible scam text message. I would like to inform both fido and fido users to be aware of it.
Hey Community!
I wanted to share something that happened to me today because I feel that my experience can help prevent any of our customers from becoming victims.
I want to emphasize how important it is to be skeptical and use critical thinking when it comes to receiving a call/text/email from an unfamiliar number. The people who run these kinds of ploys go to elaborate lengths to fool and scare people into giving them their info and my experience can help prevent any of our customers from falling into their trap.
I received a call today from a number that I did not recognize, from another province (647-729-8921). I usually don't answer calls from numbers that I don't know so I let the call go to voicemail and they left a strange message indicating some kind of legal repercussions if I did not call them back. I thought that was weird so I googled the number and nothing came up. even weirder.
Either way, my thought was that they maybe had the wrong number, so, I decided to call them back to let them know and when I did, they already had my name.
The man on the line claimed to be an Ontario police officer contacting me on behalf of the CRA and even provided me a badge number for legitimacy but would not give me any information until I confirmed my personal information with him (red flag). When I refused to give him my personal information, he raised his voice and claimed that he would send my 'file' to my local RCMP and that they would be taking actions against me and possibly put me in jail.
At this point, things were starting to sound familiar. I vaguely remembered hearing about some kind of scam like this. So I asked him, if this is legitimate, if you are in law enforcement, how come the number he had called from is not linked to any law enforcement agency. He could not answer, and again threatened me. I told him that I did not believe what he was telling me and that I would like him to provide me with a phone number that could be traced back to a legitimate source. This caused him to hang up on me out of frustration.
I had refused to let him take advantage of me and, because of that, he gave up.
What I'm trying to get across is not to take anything in these type of situations at face value. Do your own investigating, ask questions, learn the signs that something might not be on the level. Threats can fluster people and, because they are scared, they become victims. Don't be scared to fight back.
Hey @yangeun2
Welcome to the Community!
That's definitely not from us. I'll report it on my side but you can have a look at the answer here to do it on your side too
here's one that has me scratching my head. I can usually tell if it's legit right away .is this from Fido? Even I have to ask sometimes. 🤔
Hello Fido Customer ! Number :(604) 710-****. There seems to be changes to your account. Please verify here :http://fidoactivate.000webhostapp.com/
Hello Original_Lucy,
Thanks for the information!
That message would be SPAM as well. The domain (000webhostapp dot com) is for a free webhosting site. I'm doubtful Fido would resort to a free hosting site.
Hope this helps
Cheers
