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Story summary
- Gideon Rabinowitz, a 64-year-old from Newbury, Berkshire, lost over £1,400 to a smishing text pretending to be from his bank.
- Smishing uses Short Message Service (SMS) and phishing to steal information, as the Dedicated Card and Payment Crime Unit notes a case of 15,000 scam messages in five days.
- The UK government plans to ban Sim farms to protect consumers, and victims should report fraud to Action Fraud and banks.
