2008-08-16

Text Message Scam

Got this text message on August 14th:

Your Finance Center F-C-U services was suspended for suspicious activity, call us at 6197934988
The message was from "dept@fcfcu.com". When I first googled this I didn't get any results. But now, two days later, quite a few results are popping up. Here are some clues that this was a scam:

  1. Poor grammar and punctuation.
  2. Real banks don't text you if something's suspicious. A real human will call you.
  3. 619 is a San Diego area code phone number.
  4. The Whois results returns an IP in Chicago, Illinois.
My recommendation: don't call that phone number!

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