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Jan 21, 2016
A few days ago we got an SMS text that looked ligitimate but we believe it is some group doing smishing. They said the party host was Mike Benard. I'm a children's entertainer and DJ and I believe they are using an SMS bot to find out cell numbers of Entertainment companies. The message asked me if I was available to do magic tricks on a certain date. I replied yes and they sent several messages not answering exactly the information I needed to know in order to book the gig. We work on a proposal and invoice system and require the party host has the event hall reserved. I called the event hall and they did not have any record of a Mike Benard calling or reserving the hall. They even asked that I not take the payment with PayPal. For out of state gigs we insist on using PayPal. After the last communication with them they asked again today if I was available for the party. This time the details were identical except for the venue address. All of the other text messages looked similar with a similar style so that's what got me suspicious. I think I need to report them to the police so other authority.