During Thursday, Region Jämtland Härjedalen issued a warning that text messages were sent out that appeared to come from 1177, although they did not come from there.
There have been links in the SMS. On the region’s Facebook page, it is clarified that genuine text messages from 1177 never contain links. They urge you to never click on links in text messages that appear to come from 1177, but instead to log in to 1177 yourself from a browser.
The region is also asking people who have received fake text messages from 1177 to report it to the police.