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When i woke up yesterday morning (Tuesday), I noticed what appeared to be a text from my bank informing me that my atm card had been frozen due to fraud, and to please call this number. Noting the time the text was received by my phone (about 5:15 a.m.), I became suspicious. I decided not to call, but go to my bank in person and speak to someone their.
I left work a few minutes early to get there before they closed. When I got to the teller, I explained the issue, she said let me check. She checked, everything was good. I showed her the text, and she instantly said it was a scam. The bank manager assured me they would not send texts for something that important, it would be a call. They copied the number to report to their scam monitoring department.
So if you get texts purporting to be from your bank at o' dark thirty in the morning saying your account has an issue, don't respond. Go to your bank in person, and sort it out there.
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