Security News > 2020 > November > Smishing attack tells you “mobile payment problem” – don’t fall for it!
That's because pretty much every mobile phone in the world can receive text messages, regardless of its age, feature set or ability to access the internet.
The obvious solution in cases like this, where you want to check if there really is a problem with your mobile phone account balance - or your credit card statement, or, your latest home delivery, or your streaming video subscription, or whatever it might be.
Use the Developer menus instead, as noted above, and - as far as we are aware - you will reliably get to the source code of the web page, because the browser's user interface itself can't be reprogrammed from JavaScript inside a web page you just visited.
This smishing attempt was surprisingly believable, with a legitimate looking text message and a sign-in page that had an HTTPS URL, a valid encryption certificate and near-perfect visuals.
An anti-virus such as Sophos Home or Sophos Intercept X for Mobile doesn't just block malware that tries to get onto your device but can help to stop you getting to rogue web pages in the first place, thus keeping you one step further away from harm.