This is a post by BargainBabe.com writer Yazmin Cruz.
Right smack in the middle of a fancy schmancy dinner I received a text meant to swindle me out of money. On our way home I checked my phone and found the text, at right. I had received the Walmart text scam that’s been going around.
There were red flags all over this thing. For one, I am not a Walmart shopper. Though it was my birthday, I knew it wasn’t my lucky day as I hadn’t entered any giveaways. The biggest clue this was a scam was the number. It was a regular 10-digit number instead of the usual shortcodes used by legitimate companies.
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Word just in from Phil at Feedblitz, the software program I use to send daily and weekly BargainBabe.com emails. Images may not be showing up if you opted to receive (or it somehow got changed) a text version of the BB email:
Either they changed their account to be text only or their email app has chosen to display text instead of HTML.
The subscriber can log into feedblitz and make sure they have HTML selected as their format preference at My Account | Profile
To recap, here is what you need to do:
Real or fake? Credit: dreamglowpumpkincat210/Flickr
The fraudulent email I received from my credit card company, well, turns out it was real! After receiving the suspicious email and phone call asking for my social security number, I alerted the company and shared the email and phone number. Here is the (edited) response I received this morning from its Abuse department.
