Verizon Wireless Phishing Scam (Text)

Lynnj — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:33:02 GMT

I just posted this over on Electronics forum, thought I'd post here too because VP does not link on the main page of community forums.

Just a heads up for you if you are a Verizon Wireless customer. I received a text message sent to my cell phone today. It came across as a "free text message", and looked like some of the other Verizon Wireless alert text messages I've received in the past.

However, it said "for my security, my online account has been locked. Click on the following link to sign in". The link had a VZN Wireless address, and some other letters after that. It wasn't the standard verizonwireless.com type of address. Do not click the link and give your login information.

Before I clicked the link, I called Verizon Wireless to see if this was legit. They said it is not, and is a scam. They would never send any message, either by text or email, to ask for my login information. This is someone looking for your account information, and would take over your account and charge up hundreds of dollars of overseas calls and other charges.

Here is a link to the online forum at Verizon, where it appears others have received this same type of message in the past, but via email.

https://community.verizonwireless.com/thread/814261

Re: Verizon Wireless Phishing Scam (Text)

LilacTree — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 18:46:58 GMT

Thanks for the heads up!!

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