Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Fraudulent VISA Text Message

Just thought I'd warn everyone out there. I received a fraudulent text message today that purported to be about my Visa card. It said that my account had been frozen for abnormal activity and gave a 408 area code phone number to call. I called my bank and credit cards directly and pretty much confirmed that the text was fraudulent, none of my cards were frozen. So, just be sure not to call that number if you get the text. I assume this might be related to the security breach that happened when our UHS files got hacked into. Or it could just be an entirely different scam. In any case, they're probably trying to fish for more personal information about us.

6 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

these fraudulent text messages are making me firsty.

5/19/2009 11:52 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

die please 11:52.

5/20/2009 11:25 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

these pretzels are making me thirsty.

5/20/2009 12:06 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

when you get those bank messages saying so on and so fourth, just ignore them

5/20/2009 12:46 PM  
Blogger Kathleen said...

How did your spam filter not catch that?

5/20/2009 2:28 PM  
Blogger caley said...

You have a text message spam filter?

5/20/2009 4:59 PM  

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