My husband got a text last Friday, apparently from Three, that neither of us can make sense of;
"Your top up payment card xxxx expires at the end of this month. You'll need to update this at 3.ie /n5i 5r". (Spaces added to unlink it, if that's the word).
The only payment cards we have are our bank's credit and debit cards, the 4-digit number in the text isn't the last 4 digits (or any group of digits) on any of them, and none of them are nearing expiry date.
Our topups are for a phone each and a router, all on Prepay, I top up both my phone and the router SIM every 28 days; plus my husband's phone, if his credit's getting low (topup dates are only a useful reminder to check that, as his phone can be topped up any old time). He just does a modest amount of calls and SMS, doesn't yet use any internet device, and has data turned off in his phone to avoid a couple of technical problems.
A calendar month doesn't often have its last day coinciding with our topup day, and this month isn't one of them (last Thursday was a topup day).
For convenience I do all our topups with my card, but I didn't receive the above message (in any form). And he didn't receive a corresponding email as we sometimes do with this kind of thing. (In case you're wondering how, he's happy to just access his email accounts in whatever internet devices I have at the time).
He's keeping the text for reference, until we know what's with it. (The link in it wouldn't work of course even if he tried, but in any case the one tech thing he's been well briefed on is possible scams!).
Any ideas?
