I’ve seen pianos in my text messages, but now we’ve got an article

I saw this on Wednesday morning before podcast time. The toot with the boost says:

Not Simon : Proofpoint: Security Brief: Sing Us a Song You’re the Piano Scam
@ and Proofpoint identified ongoing malicious email campaigns since January 2024 using piano-themed messages to lure people into advance fee fraud (AFF) scams. Most of the messages target students and faculty at colleges and universities in North America, however other targeting of industries including healthcare and food and beverage services was also observed. The victim is lured into sending money to cover shipping costs (advance fee). Proofpoint assesses with high confidence that part of the operation is based in Nigeria. IOC provided.

#threatintel #IOC #nigeria #cybercrime #scam

I responded:

Jared Rimer: @ @ I’ve gotten text messages via the email to sms gateway saying there was a piano for sale. Since I have one, I never responded. Interesting to note that there’s now a scam about this. I’ve gotten several of these and never responded to any of them.

Both favorited my response.

While I’m not going to take from the Graphics Proofpoint shared with Bleeping computer, I will say that my messages were sent via the email to sms gateway, or maybe a phone number in some cases.

It was similar to what the article has mentioned and I never responded. Since I have a piano, I don’t have room for anothr one.

The fact that payments like paypal and apple pay are methods of payment are not necessarily scammy, but the fact they claim that the first person who pays will get it might be.

I forget what my texts said, but I know I’ve received these.

Free Piano phish targets American university students, staff is the article.

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