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[Icegoddess]

I just received a Text message from this number saying "Its Urgent call Comenity Capital Bank" at this number or gives an odd web or E-mail address, Re my Ulta MC. 

Notice no comma after urgent and no apostrophe in it's.

Of course, I didn't call, but I did do a browser search on that number and found that it's been a scam number for a few years now claiming to be from several different retailers including Amazon, Ann Taylor, Capital Bank, etc. 

[Mz iMac]

@Icegoddess  What's an Ulta MC?

[Icegoddess]

@Mz iMacUlta MasterCard.  It's Ulta's store MasterCard. 

[kaydee50]

"Call block" is a very useful button!  

[Estellee]

@Icegoddess Thanks for the warning!

[CrazyTimes]

Lots of scams out there. I get them via text and email. 

I've received emails supposedly from Spectrum. Called Spectrum about the first one, and they said it was fake. Deleted it. Got another one today. Different message, but still wanted me to send them info. No way! Deleted it too. 

I got an email from some company I never heard of telling me the amount I requested to be deducted from my bank account had been processed. Noticed odd spellings of common words. Red flag! Delete. 

If you hover over a suspicious sender's email, it's always some weird random adddress. Don't click on anything. Don't respond. Delete those! 

[haddon9]

@Icegoddess Thanks for the heads up!

I have gotten similar messages in the past. I will often Google the number given with the word scam to see if anyone else has gotten a scam message with the smae phone number.

[haddon9]

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@kaydee50 wrote:

"Call block" is a very useful button!  

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@kaydee50  I use "Block Unknown Caller" on my iPhone but texts still go through and this type of scam is usually a text.

I love that block caller feature!

[SactoSue]

Best never to open any link or make any phone call for one of these alerts

You can check the validity in many ways that dont allow the scammer to know you are a valid email or phone #.  You can go online to your credit card or call the number given on the CC website.  Same with the bank or other finanical institution. 

Never, ever, never, ever, never, ever click into a link or call them at the number they give. 

[JudyL]

Yesterday I received an email re a DocuSign document that needed my signature.  I've used DocuSign before but am not doing anything at the moment that would require my signature on a document.  It gave a document number and a "draft" name of the document.  The email looked so real.  I, of course, did not click on the link to the document.  When I clicked on the "mark as spam" the email addressee popped up and was definitely not legitimate.

Please be aware.