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If your cellphone has a 513 area code, you could be targeted more often than most by spammers posing as banks in hopes of stealing your sensitive information.
That's according to a study by San Francisco-based Cloudmark, which analyzes spam text messages - also known as text phishing, SMS phishing or SMiShing - that have been forwarded to users' mobile carriers because they were unsolicited.
The Cloudmark analysis found that so far in 2013, 4 percent of bank-related text spamming was directed to phones in Cincinnati's 513 area code. ...