Fake scams

Not only are there scams going round, there are also fake scams - i.e.  faked images of made-up scams. The image shown here appears to be fake.  It looks like the iOS text app but it's on a Samsung device. The heading at the top is not centred. And the second message, the one which is  apparently the scam, links to a (non-existent) gov.uk  URL, rather than a third-party domain. If this were an email, the link  could take you somewhere other than the address shown - but there is no  such mechanism for an SMS. In other words, clicking on this link cannot do anything other than take you to the government's official website, and therefore is not a security risk.

As for why someone would do this, maybe they wanted to raise awareness of scams (but then why not use a real scam as an example). Or maybe it was to get views and likes.