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Card Services Alert - Fraudulent Text Message
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Text messages from a non working number, subject line of "Card Services Alert" charges my phone $1.00, then $.50. Message has been texted to my Tracfone multiple times. Today was the first time
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Forums » Money » Scams & Fraud » Card Services Alert - Fraudulent Text Message
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Card Services Alert - Fraudulent Text Message
posted at November 12, 2012 2:34 PM EST
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Text messages from a non working number, subject line of "Card Services Alert" charges my phone $1.00, then $.50. Message has been texted to my Tracfone multiple times. Today was the first time I inadvertently accepted the text message. Beware!
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Re: Card Services Alert - Fraudulent Text Message
posted at November 23, 2012 1:07 AM EST
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In Response to Card Services Alert - Fraudulent Text Message: Text messages from a non working number, subject line of "Card Services Alert" charges my phone $1.00, then $.50. Message has been texted to my Tracfone multiple times. Today was the first time I inadvertently accepted the text message. Beware! Posted by abcashme Thanks for the information because criminals will use official looking messages to take advantage of you.
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Re: Card Services Alert - Fraudulent Text Message
posted at March 2, 2013 8:54 PM EST
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I used to get such text messages in 2012. I think I received three of them. Each time I looked at the message to learn what it was about, only because my cellphone does not reveal who is sending it or give a subject for it until I choose to open the text message. I felt at those times that I was being sent a bogus message. Maybe I was expected to be charged money or minutes for opening it and somehow create revenue for the sender. In my state, there was a state attorney general campaign to make the public aware of fraudulent text messages that caused the recipients to suffer a loss. There may be a discussion about the topic on the websites run by attorneys general. R |
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