LOS ANGELES (KABC) — Scam texts are flooding our phones and costing some dearly.
According to the Federal Trade Commission, the texts scammed Americans out of nearly half a billion dollars last year alone.
So where are all those texts coming from? It turns out, millions may be coming from Southern California.
Been Coon with the cyber security firm Unit221B tracks fraudster activity on the dark web. He’s also tracking what are described as “SIM farms.”