Text Messages from Student Affairs

If you are an active/current student at UC Berkeley, and you have provided us with a phone number as a method of contact, UC Berkeley may send you text messages about essential operational services that impact your student experience such as financial aid, class enrollment, billing, or payment issues.  

You may opt out of this text messaging at any time by simply replying STOP to the text message you receive. 

If you have any questions about a text message you receive related to financial aid, enrollment, registration, billing, or payment, please contact our Cal Student Central team.

Remember that scams may have legitimate looking links and sender identities. Verify all text and other communications by logging into trusted systems such as CalCentral by typing in a known valid URL.

UC Berkeley will never ask you for sensitive information through text message. If you receive a text message asking for your personal information, do not respond. To report a potential scam, please contact phishing@berkeley.edu.