Verizon customers have been receiving suspicious spam texts in recent days that appear to be coming from their own phone numbers, USA Today reported Tuesday.
Kristofer Goldsmith, the CEO of private intelligence firm Sparverius, tweeted Tuesday that the texts, which purport to offer customers a free gift, contained "disguised link[s]" to "the live feed of Russian propaganda website '1TV.'" Several posts on Reddit and on a Verizon forum confirm that the link does lead to 1TV.
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