These 3 words in a text message mean youre being scammed heres why you should delete it immediately

There is a certain phrase that should now get your Spidey sense tingling.This three-word message is one that scammers rely on and could make you high-risk to fall for a scam text: “Would you kindly.”It may seem like a friendly or harmless phrase, but your guard should go up immediately.Even the single word “kindly” should read as a red flag.“The word ‘kindly’ is simply something we don’t use in our common vernacular in the US,” Tim Bajarin, a 40-year veteran technology analyst, told Readers Digest in an interview published Saturday.

“You’ll often hear it used in countries with British influence, perhaps once a colonial country, where English isn’t their mother tongue [such as Nigeria, India and Pakistan].” Because the word “kindly” is most likely used by a foreign national, it’s possible that the message is being sent by someone in an overseas “boiler room” out to scam you.“If you see this word or phrase, it’s a red flag, similar to poor spelling or grammar,” added Bajarin, who is also the chairman of the San Jose, Calif.–based market research company Creative Strategies.Doug Shadel, founder of Fraud Prevention Strategies and a former fraud investigator and special assistant to the Washington state Attorney General’s office, also warned people to be on the lookout for more than just a particular word, phrase or spelling mistakes.“Really, any communication that you get that’s unsolicited — whether it’s a text or robocall, social media message or email — should make you highly suspicious,” he told Reader’s Digest.

“If you didn’t initiate this correspondence, chances are it’s a scam.”Shadel, who also directed AARP’s Fraud Watch Network for 30 years, explained that these days, scammers know consumers are catching on faster than ever before.As for what this will cause them to do? Shift tactics.Now, a new opening message is still posed in a seemingly innocent way, something to the effect of, “D...