Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Scamming - Fraud
If you have received fake "AT&T Unauthorized Payment" text messages like the one below asking you to call the telephone number in them, please do not. This is because the fake messages are being sent by scammers who are attempting to steal their potential victims' money, financial, and personal information. Therefore, recipients are asked to delete the messages.
Frm: AT&T SUBJ:Unsuccessful payment. Call 9097688411MSG:6220“FRM: AT&T
Frm: AT&T SUBJ:Unsuccessful payment. Call 9097688411
MSG:6220
“FRM: AT&T
SUBJ: Unsuccessful payment. Call 7076618029.MSG: 5068 ”
SUBJ: Unsuccessful payment. Call 7076618029.
MSG: 5068 ”
Frm: AT&T SUBJ:Unsuccessful payment. Call 6616893383MSG:2862
Frm: AT&T SUBJ:Unsuccessful payment. Call 6616893383
MSG:2862
Frm: AT&T SUBJ:Unsuccessful payment. Call 6616893002MSG:2862
Frm: AT&T SUBJ:Unsuccessful payment. Call 6616893002
FRM:AT&TSUBJ:Unauthorized payment.Call 8782059684MSG:8993
FRM:AT&T
SUBJ:Unauthorized payment.Call 8782059684
MSG:8993
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