The more we use our iPhones to chat, the more smishing (SMS phishing) attacks try to trick us into compromising our accounts. According to research by Bleeping Computer, the latest wave of attacks is simple but includes serious efforts to bypass Apple’s way of protecting users from using bad web links.
The whole scheme merely attempts to get you to reply to a text, even if it’s simply with a Y. Why? So the link in the original text will become active.
Here’s how it works. When an Apple user gets a text message from an unknown user, any web links in the message are disabled to cut down on users unknowingly using a malicious link. However, as Bleeping Computer confirmed with Apple, if the user replies to the text, the links become enabled.
Read more at Macworld.com