Spam or legit text message

[Ldawson]

I received a text from 1-860-996-2595 that reads "Thank you for your payment! Please accept our special rebate from VZN of $200 coveringwforest.com/?#WR4FMBI" 

Is this spam or is it real?

[Ann154]

Looks fishy to me. If it had actually come from Verizon Wireless, it would have come from a very different phone number and the abbreviation of Verizon Wireless would have been not how it was done in your example. 

[jav6]

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@Ldawson wrote:

I received a text from 1-860-996-2595 that reads "Thank you for your payment! Please accept our special rebate from VZN of $200 coveringwforest.com/?#WR4FMBI" 

Is this spam or is it real?

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If that was a link in the text message, it is sending you to a (non-Verizon) website from Iceland:

https://www.whois.com/whois/coveringwforest.com .  Definitely a PHISHING attempt.

[LB0922]

I have received this text as well. I don’t believe it’s a real text from Verizon as I have not recently made a payment. 

[BrutalElder]

I received a similar text as well right after making a payment. The link I got was:

"temperamentdomoist .com/ ?#fam23fn"

Definitely seems like a phishing attempt, although I have to admit, seeing that I had just made a payment... I almost clicked on it.

[vzw_customer_support]

Yes, this is definitely spam and not a real text from Verizon. Please be careful not to open any links and forward the suspected spam text message to short code 7726 to get it reported. Thank you! ~Christian

[mrussnow]

How do you forward such texts?  Mine says: "Your latest bill has been paid, please accept your special rebate and gift of $250 from VZN! deepjspoil.com/?#ucJga1N."   It comes from ### ### ####.   And how would they know I was a Verizon customer?  Even a spam call just dials (or in this case texts) random numbers.  Very odd.  I have blocked the number from my account.  It will not let me put the URL into this question.

I cannot find a "forward" feature as I read this text online (not directly on my phone).

[Ann154]

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@mrussnow wrote:

How do you forward such texts?  Mine says: "Your latest bill has been paid, please accept your special rebate and gift of $250 from VZN! deepjspoil.com/?#ucJga1N."   It comes from 309 XXX-XXXX.   And how would they know I was a Verizon customer?  Even a spam call just dials (or in this case texts) random numbers.  Very odd.  I have blocked the number from my account.  It will not let me put the URL into this question.

I cannot find a "forward" feature as I read this text online (not directly on my phone).

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You need to open the message conversation and long press the message itself (carefully to avoid opening the link).  At the long press, you will get a dialog menu with an option to forward the message.  You then send the message to 7726 which spells SPAM on the dialer.  You will get a reply from the 7726 asking for the number where the message came from.  You will then reply with the phone number that sent it.

[Niksunshine]

I received the same message from an odd number as well number so I forward the message I received to ask verizOn and this is the reply I received.......

Thank you for contacting Verizon! We've launched a brand new messaging experience that will help you get the answers you need. Feel free to ask us a question. 

https://www.yourdigitalrebatecenter.com/?intcmp=INT-MYV-webview

By continuing, you acknowledge that information exchanged in Apple Business Chat is available to Apple and may be used per Apple's privacy policy at www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/. We may monitor or retain the chat for quality or security purposes. Chats are initially handled by our Digital Assistant but may be transferred to a live chat rep.

[Niksunshine]

After I forward the message to Verizon to ask if it was legit or not why did I receive a message from Verizon confirming that it was legit?