Text message from Lebara with dodgy link

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    This morning I received a text message from Lebara saying they'd had trouble taking my payment. Made complete sense as I've lost my wallet and had to cancel my cards this week. At the bottom was a link to log into MyLebara account which took me to a dodgy looking site for a VPN saying my details have been stolen etc etc.Very odd from an official Lebara text. Anyone else had this?

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    Junior Member
    Just like Geoffrad2309 received a dodgy phishing email, the suggestion I made would be to perhaps take a screenshot of what you received and post it here,so the community know what to keep their eyes on.All the best

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      Junior Member
      Couldn't work out how to post a screenshot but the text certainly looks legit as it was the latest of the usual texts you get from the same Lebara number, this one saying that my monthly plan couldn't renew as there was an issue with the payment. This is correct as it is due today and I had cancelled the card so the payment wouldn't have gone through. (I also had an email with this info but no link). What is strange is the last sentence saying "to log in to your MyLebara account visit - and then gives a link to a site which says my phone has been compromised so sign up for this VPN.
      This is the address for reference:
      Lebara.me/42Hkv9

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      • #4
        Community Manager
        Pete1987, GaryMc thanks both for flagging the phishing and smishing messages that you received. I've informed the higher ups about this. We also have some information on identifying and dealing with these sort of messages on the community. You can report any suspicious SMS messages by forwarding the message to 7726.
        Martin - Community Manager

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