I received this sms. Is this a scam?

18 comments
  1. Hi. I am Czech government. I will give you lot of money. I just need picture of both sides of your credit card and 100$ in Google play cards. This is definitely not a scam

  2. Yes, most likely – they even got the name wrong – MP*SV* is the abreviation of the ministry and it is MP*VS* in the address.

  3. Government telling you that you are entitled to some government money? I wish it worked like that.

  4. Aside from obvious “yes, it is”:

    1. The number is nothing special
    2. The text is unusually phrased, as if each sentence was translated from different languate
    3. The link doesnt point to any official government site
    4. The site link has flipped order of letters MPSV->MSPV

    If only part of those would be true and I would for some reason expect SMS like that, I would check the website owner and googled it first to see what pops up (i.e. a warning about scam).

  5. Rule of thumb: When you have to ask “Is this a scam?”, it is a scam.

    Plus as others have said, URL is wrong, wording is weird etc.

  6. I’ve just reported this website to the Czech Internet organization. WhoIs show that domain was bought yesterday and signed by nobody on UK address.
    Next time check it through some kind of this application.
    And you can report it on STOPonline.cz

    Stay safe.

  7. The last time the government was sending SMS notifications it was through cellular network provider. You would probably receive this message through O2, T-Mobile or etc.

    TL;DR: It’s fake.

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