Get exclusive previews about the Back2work Disbursement Fraud scam that circulated in the months before.
Have you received a message in your mailbox from the Department of Workforce Development of Indiana, United States. The USA government has rolled out a number of different packages to provide monetary benefits for its citizens. Payroll tax credit scheme, employee retention program, Etc. made direct bank deposits into residents’ accounts in different states. It doesn’t necessarily mean that every message you receive is legit. Let’s look at the Disbursement Scam.
Scam by Back2work:
Last year, scammers created a text message pretending to be from the Department of Workforce Development (Indiana). The text message asked people to verify their bank information. Two goals are the goal of this year’s scammers. The first goal is to phish people for their payment information. The second is to install malware onto user devices.
The recent smishing attempt informed mobile phone users from Indiana that ‘your back 2 work deposit of $2,800 is available; click on https://uhapo.com/uplink to receive the payment.’
Another message stated that your back 2 work disbursement for $3,800 was not being processed by your financial institution. This is actually a Scam. Kindly click on www.uplink.leverbro.online to verify your bank account details are correct.
Some Indiana residents received the second email from +1 (360)820-1072. Evidently, scammers want to collect payment information. However, this year they are using a different story.
Jennifer Adamany (Better Business Bureau Servicing Central Indiana) spoke out to inform users that clicking on such links could cause malware to be installed on their devices. BBB advised users to not click on any links sent by SMS.
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BBB further clarified that neither the Department of Workforce Development nor any other text message sends ask for payment information. The DWD would also request that people confirm their details via the state portal, rather than giving a link to third-party websites if they had to.
BBB suggested that you take preventive measures to stop smishing attempts. This includes updating your anti-virus, verifying URLs that look like official websites, don’t reply to such SMS, blacklisting the phone number from whom such SMS originated, looking out for spelling errors and grammar problems as such Back2work Disbursement Fraudmessages come from countries not familiar with US English.
It is obvious that people are lured by the back2work message in order to claim money from DWD.
Conclusion:
The message that DWD claims is offering money is a hoax. DWD does NOT send text messages asking people to verify their payment details or request that they send them texts. DWD confirmed that the back2work program does not exist. the back2work disbursement scam is real. DWD will not pay any money to individuals’ accounts, as such a scheme has never been implemented.
