Among the many scams to be aware of over the long holiday shopping weekend, the award for best name goes to smishing.
With Black Friday fast approaching, Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams warned city shoppers Wednesday about a host of consumer cons, among them smishing or SMS phishing, the texting version of those common, crooked e-mail come-ons.
With smishing, scammers send unsolicited text messages to cellphones notifying unsuspecting consumers of phony vacation deals, or warning that their bank accounts are compromised and instructing them to call a phone number through which personal information is extracted.
