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Check a list of recent text messages from HMRC to help you decide if a text you've received is a scam.
Guidance on recommended text message wording for communicating chlamydia test results from the National Chlamydia Screening Programme.
Choosing an SMS aggregator service provider, setting up a sender ID, dealing with errors.
When to send emails and text messages to your users and how to write them.
Evidence-based principles for the effective use of screening appointment text message reminders in reducing inequalities and supporting informed choice.
Employment Appeal Tribunal Judgment of Judge Shanks on 22 February 2024.
Your mobile phone or tablet may get an emergency alert if there’s a danger to life nearby. Alerts will tell you what you need to do to stay safe.
To help our investigations report all HMCTS-related suspicious phone calls, emails, and text messages.
Find out how OPG contacts customers and what to do if you are worried a call, email or message is not genuine.
Use a checklist to decide if a suspicious contact is a scam and not a genuine phone call, text message (SMS) or email.
Authors test whether a program of sending student data to parents using high frequency text messaging improves education outcomes
Emergency alerts are broadcast from mobile phone masts. Find out if your phone or tablet can receive alerts.
How leaving the EU has affected the cost of making phone calls and sending texts from the UK to EU and European Economic Area (EEA) countries.
Find out how internet scams work and what to be aware of - misleading websites, report website fraud, suspicious communication and phishing
A Fraud and Error Prevention Service (FEPS) centre may review your benefits claim - check that a letter, phone call or text is genuine
Using an ecological momentary assessment to evaluate your digital health product.
The Student Loans Company (SLC) is urging students to be aware of fraud and smishing scams as the new academic year starts.
Research into consumers’ experiences of suspicious calls, texts and app messages. The research focused on understanding the prevalence of suspicious calls, texts and app message, the measures individuals take to identify and screen out this content and whether/how they report...
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