New channel: SMS / smishing

Train your team to beat smishing, not just phishing

Attackers don't stop at the inbox. Run realistic SMS phishing simulations on the same platform you already use for email — AI-generated texts, branded landing pages, and automatic training the moment someone taps.

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Red flags
  • Urgent payment demand
  • Look-alike sender and link
  • An unexpected fee

Why run smishing simulations

Mobile is the channel your awareness program is missing. Text messages get opened in seconds, bypass email filters, and land on personal devices your perimeter never sees.

Close the mobile blind spot

Smishing skips the spam folder and lands directly on the phone. Test the habits email training can't reach and measure how your team reacts on mobile.

AI-written, true-to-life texts

Generate convincing SMS in your team's language. Pick an external brand persona — a parcel service, a bank — or an internal colleague, and the copy and sender ID adapt automatically.

Just-in-time training on every tap

Anyone who clicks the link reaches a branded landing page and an instant red-flag breakdown of the exact message they fell for — the same coaching flow as your email simulations.

One report across email and SMS

Sends, clicks, and login attempts roll up next to your email results, with channel filters and audit-ready PDFs — no second dashboard to learn.

Privacy-first and EU-hosted

Numbers are validated and stored normalized, sending is geofenced, and reports never export phone numbers or message bodies.

No new tooling to roll out

Smishing reuses your target lists, sender contexts, scheduling, and landing pages. Flip the channel toggle in the campaign wizard and you're live.

Built on the AutoPhish platform

Everything email simulations do — over SMS

Smishing isn't a bolt-on. It runs on the same engine as your email campaigns, so personas, landing pages, tracking, and education all carry over.

Brand and colleague personas

External personas drive a realistic brand sender ID and brand-voice copy; internal scenarios use a department or colleague sender — exactly like your email lures.

Branded links and tracking

SMS links resolve to the same internal or branded landing pages as email, with shared click tracking and delivery receipts feeding your reports.

Encoding-aware cost control

The live preview shows GSM-7 vs. Unicode encoding and segment count, so you see the real credit cost — and can trim it — before you launch.

From phone numbers to teachable moments

The same three-step campaign flow you know from email — now over SMS.

1

Add phone numbers

Add mobile numbers to your target lists by hand, CSV import, or API. Every number is validated to strict E.164 format before it's stored.

2

Generate and preview

Choose a scenario and sender, let AI write the SMS, then preview the exact encoding, segment count, and per-recipient cost before anything sends.

3

Send, track and train

Messages go out with a branded short link. Delivery receipts and clicks are tracked, and anyone who taps gets immediate just-in-time training.

Compliant by design

Smishing simulations are sensitive. AutoPhish keeps them safe to run and easy to defend.

EU-hosted infrastructure and GDPR-compliant by default.

Sending is geofenced to EU-27, the UK and US numbers, validated to strict E.164.

Reports and audit PDFs never export phone numbers or message bodies.

Recipient numbers are stored normalized and scoped to your company, with strict tenant isolation.

Role-based access and full audit logging on every campaign action.

Backed by a standard Data Processing Agreement and clear EU data-protection commitments.

Smishing simulation FAQ

Smishing is phishing carried out over SMS text messages instead of email. Attackers impersonate brands, delivery services, banks, or colleagues to trick people into tapping a malicious link or handing over credentials. Because texts feel personal and urgent, smishing often succeeds where email phishing fails.

Still have questions? Talk to our team.

Add SMS to your awareness program today

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