If you have a smartphone, you're a target. That's the thinking behind the latest scam going viral, where hackers use malicious text messages and packages you didn't order in a bid to steal your personal information and wipe out your financial accounts.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a warning this week about a new type of "brushing" scam. "In a traditional brushing scam, online vendors send merchandise to an unsolicited recipient and then use the recipient's information to post a positive review of the product," reads a statement the FBI's Pittsburgh field office posted on X.

As annoying as fake reviews can be, now bad actors are taking things one step further, using this setup to siphon data from unsuspecting victims in a particularly insidious way. The difference boils down

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