Wow - we get the odd spam text this side of the pond, but at least they are bulk texts rather than group texts (so you don't receive replies from other people). I suspect that's just because those are cheaper here (and maybe it's the other way round on your side, which is why you get group spam), though for phishing it would be an obvious give-away if you they were visibly sending the message to other people as well as you.
The old rule "never click on a link in an email" applies to texts too. Indeed I get the impression that the scammers are putting more effort into text scams at the moment.
BTW the big one here recently has been a two-stage scam: send a text claiming to be from a delivery company who, for whatever reason, require you to pay a fee to deliver/re-deliver a package. If someone falls for it, the next day you contact them pretending to be their bank (they now know which bank, after all), inform them that you've seen a suspicious transaction (the small fee they paid), confirm to them that this was a scam, tell them that their account is vulnerable, that others have had their accounts cleaned-out, and try to scare them into "temporarily" transferring their funds into a "safe" account while the bank's security team sorts it out...
