Virgin Media O2 Issue Urgent Warning over 'Significant Rise' in Scam Texts

Virgin Media O2 issue urgent warning over 'significant rise' in scam texts

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O2 UK Warns of New Scam Texts as Network Blocks 600 Million Messages

Mobile network operator O2 (Virgin Media) has today revealed that they’ve blocked more than 600 million scam text messages from reaching their customers phones so far in 2025 (more than double the number in 2023 and 2024 combined). But the operator warns that they’ve seen a “significant rise” in gambling, recruitment and car finance scam texts. The telecoms provider has analysed messages reported and blocked throughout the month of August and id…