UK Govt warns of a rise in “smishing” scams targeting students with fraudulent text messages requesting personal and banking information related to student loans

Scammers target students at this time of year as they receive their first maintenance loan payment. SLC is expecting to pay £2bn to students over the autumn term and last year it stopped £2.9m of maintenance loan payments being taken by smishing and phishing scams, where students received and acted on false communications…