Banking customers in three additional states have received fake text messages which claimed to be from their institutions.
As part of a growing wave of related Phishing attempt all through the nation, clients in Cincinnati, Ohio, St. Louis, Missouri and Lewiston, Idaho last week received text messages stating that their bank accounts had been free zed.
These attacks represent those in opposition to bank customers in October in Pennsylvania, Nebraska and New York, and are part of an ongoing wave of Phishing attacks that have shot up 600 percent more than last year.
The customer made a call to US Bank, had the card replacement and didn’t mislay any money. Law force reported several banks had been under attack by the scam.
Alike reports came from Bridgeton, MO-based Vantage Credit Union clients also which have been reported.
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