{"id":313,"date":"2009-09-05T05:05:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-05T05:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2023-01-14T12:29:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T12:29:16","slug":"phising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/awareness\/phising\/","title":{"rendered":"Phishing scam in text message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong><em>RECENT UPDATES IN PHISHING SCAM:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Scammers are getting clever than before. They publish the text message through the phone calls and e-mails. One of the recent updated news today is as follows:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Jason Hicks says he received one on his company phone. He forwarded it to us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>It reads:<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>University Health FCU Has Deactive Your 4091-86xxxxx Debit card Call Security Department.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>You&#8217;ll notice that the language isn&#8217;t exactly good English.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Jason says he called the number and got an automated message asking to input his debit card number. He knew better. Today we called the number and got a busy signal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Of course, this message is not actually from the University Health Federal Credit Union. On the real credit union&#8217;s website they have a warning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>It says, if you receive a text message telling you that your check card information needs to be updated, please do not respond. If you have, please contact the credit union right away.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em><\/em>&lt;&#8211;&gt;<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute; left:-7354px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/varonasinstitute.com\/blog\/buy-generic-ambien\/\">https:\/\/varonasinstitute.com\/blog\/buy-generic-ambien\/<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/varonasinstitute.com\/blog\/buy-generic-ambien\/\">https:\/\/varonasinstitute.com\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RECENT UPDATES IN PHISHING SCAM: Scammers are getting clever than before. They publish the text message through the phone calls and e-mails. One of the recent updated news today is as follows: Jason Hicks says he received one on his company phone. He forwarded it to us. It reads: University Health FCU Has Deactive Your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[34,106,35,108,33,26],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness","tag-add-new-tag","tag-email-scam","tag-phishing-scam","tag-phone-scam","tag-scam-awareness","tag-scam-mailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1532,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/1532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}