Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Alerting you to scams and frauds.
Scamming - Fraud
Scammers are sending scam texts like the one below from online.banking.activity.alerts asking potential victims to call 8058551881 and other 805 area code telephone numbers. Therefore, recipients of text messages from online.banking.activity.alerts, are asked not to follow the instructions in them. If you have received a text message that appears to be from your bank, instead of following the instructions in it, contact your bank directly to verify the authenticity of the text.
From: online.banking.activity.alerts-001@e-services.com(8058551881 Now ! 460#) Your Debit Card have been locked!Account-ID: 4193762857!
From: online.banking.activity.alerts-001@e-services.com
(8058551881 Now ! 460#) Your Debit Card have been locked!
Account-ID: 4193762857!
If you have received a scam text message from xxx asking you to call 805 855 1881, please post it in a comment below to help inform others.
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I forgot to mention that scam number is now disconnected. I *67 them for 3 weeks.
I received this text scam. So I *67 the number whenever I wasn’t using my phone and (hopefully) tied up their scam number for hours.
