Scam text or Virgin error

[Rogue99]

Just received following text message on phone (see below). I did not click the link. Instead I went online and checked my account and all info and payments were upto date. I used the Virgin online chat to double check - no problems. So is anyone else getting this problem - is it scammers ? I think the link is suspious as it has two hyphens in it (“-“) which I don’t think Virgin use.

[goslow]

Looks like a scam to me. Flagged on 'Virus Total' as a phishing site by 'Trustwave'

[Cardiffman282]

Yeah it's a neat ripoff of the real page complete with working Captcha. 

[ravenstar68]

Definitely a scam text.

Any legitimate website would be something.virginmedia.com

e.g.

• my.virginmedia.com
• community.virginmedia.com
• mobile.virginmedia.com

Scammers register a domain to look similar.

This link goes to the whois lookup for the domain

https://uk.godaddy.com/whois/results.aspx?domain=update-myvirgin-media.com

The domain was registered on the 1st May this year.

I've seen similar tactics used with banks as well

[用心棒]

Forward message to 7726, read more here Avoid and report internet scams and phishing: Report internet scams and phishing - GOV.UK

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