$1000 text spam SCAM

[poohr]

Text from 909-837-7761 received at half past midnight. 

Your entry last month has WON!  Go to BESTBUYWIN.NET enter your winning code 5555 to claim your free $1000 Best Buy gift card within 24 hours.

Any way, I used network solutions to find who owns the domain Best Buy Win Dot Net - guess what - they are protected by WhoisGuard   - so THEIR information is never public and THEY are protected from spam.  The public information of this web site is protected by WhoisGuard 661-310-2107 11400 W. Olympic Blvd. Suite 200, Los Angeles, CA 90064.   That is the best I could do. 

Verizon Wireless, please work with Best Buy, WhoisGuard et. al.  and put an end to this.  Please see Best Buy forum for other numbers being used:

http://forums.bestbuy.com/t5/Points-Policies-Certificates/1000-Text-Scam/m-p/445543/highlight/true#M...

[budone]

One, ya 'won' something

Two, not Best Buys link.

Those two things would have me deleting the message

[DCCyr]

ALL four (4) of my family cell phones got this text as well; each with different "winning" numbers and links.

Did someone randomly get all of my numbers - or is there a leak at Verizon???  😕

[bogray]

I just received a text from 619-823-8924 with the same SCAM content, using the website BestBuyContests.com.

DELETED.

[#5]

DCCyr wrote:

ALL four (4) of my family cell phones got this text as well; each with different "winning" numbers and links.

Did someone randomly get all of my numbers - or is there a leak at Verizon???  😕

It's called robotext just like robocalls. For example my area code is 731 now in my town all Verizon numbers start with 441. This information is public. So a spammer can easily get a program that auto texts every number from 0000-9999 and do it in minutes

[Bud33]

I received a similar text today at about 6PM,   Mine was from "Targetwinners.com" and a phone number of 612-749-0349.

There was a record of these calls on the web at http://www.scambook.com/company/view/94559/TargetWinnerscom.

I just deleted the Text!

[#7]

I have rec'd test similar to the ones described here and I find the delete button is the best response.

Rather than wasting to much time on this, hit the delete button take your spouse out for a nice dinner and a movie.  Makes for a MUCH more enjoyable evening. 

[Ann154]

I got two text messages similar to that one. I used the search function on this community to find the short code for SPAM (7726) set up by Verizon Wireless. Once I found it, I fowarded both messages to VZW and followed the additional instructions given.

[dimap52]

I wouldn't mind so much but if you're not on a texting plan you gotta PAY 0.20 each for this dribble. Thank God I only get em once every other month or so. Just got one yesterday. Sigh.

[kwomedia]

I received the same text from phone number 804-382-4836.