Your Place, Your Money: Smishing

NBC5 News has partnered with AARP to present Your Place, Your Money. Each report offers you practical financial advice that will save you money! In this report, Chuck Harwood, Director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Northwest Regional
Office, talks about “smishing.” This is a scam using text messages to get people to reveal personal information, like passwords and credit card numbers.

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