Smishing is a new scam in which you get a short text message on your cell phone.

Malware-based smishing is another threat for anyone with a smartphone.

"Smishing" "Smishing" refers to the sending of "phishing" messages via text.

Smishing, or SMS phishing, is another method cyber criminals are using to exploit mobile devices, which users download after falling prey to a social engineering ploy, is designed to defeat the SMS-based two-factor authentication most banks use to confirm online funds transfers by customers.

SMS phishing uses cell phone text messages to deliver the bait to induce people to divulge their personal information.