Reply to post: Jumping the gun a bit, aren't they ?

Contact-tracer spoofing is already happening – and it's dangerously simple to do

Pascal Monett Silver badge

Jumping the gun a bit, aren't they ?

The UK contact tracing app has just been made available and scammers are already on the hunt ?

It's a bit quick I think, and a lot of those calls must logically end in "but I don't have the app on my phone yet, so how did I get into your database ?".

Of course, there still is the obvious issue of users not engaging brains when getting a phone call, so maybe it's okay for the scammers.

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