The major brands most frequently used by text scammers have been revealed.
Thousands of people have reported receiving scam text messages purporting to be from companies during the Covid pandemic, with delivery couriers found to have had an increase of up to 829 per cent in these types of scams since last year, according to the Daily Record.
A report by Which? last year found there had been a "dramatic" rise in the practice, known as 'smishing'.
