Most people who use email somewhat regularly have heard about phishing and may even have some idea how to protect themselves against it (if you don’t here’s a good reminder on how to protect from an email-based phishing attack ). However, what a lot of folks don’t know is that phishing doesn’t have to come from only email. Although email is the most popular target for phishing attacks, phishing can also be done via text messages or SMS (smishing), phone calls (vishing), social networks direct messages (angler phishing), hypertexts (HTTPS phishing) and so on. In this article, we’ll explain what one of these phishing methods is, particularly smishing, how scammers target users via SMS messages and how to best protect against it. How Criminals Use SMS Messages for Fraud? One of the biggest dangers of smishing is that not that many people are actually familiar with it. According to the 2020 State of the Phish report by Proofpoint , less than 35% of the pop