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Text Scheme Targeting Credit Union Customers

They are playing on your fears!

ALAMANCE COUNTY, N.C. - When Cathy Key got a text message claiming to be from the State Employee Credit Union, all she could think was hold the phone, something's not right.

"Employee wasn't spelled correctly. And it said call the help desk or something like that," she said.

So she thought about it for a whole day before deciding to call the help desk number mentioned in the text to check on her account.

"I had a very bad robotic lady sounding lady who said that there was a security problem and they had inactivated my debit card," she said.

The recording told her to press one if she wanted to reactivate her debit card.

"I'm like I am not pressing one! I don't know who I'm talking too!"

Smart lady! She decided instead to look up the number to the credit union herself and call someone at her branch in Burlington instead.. A teller told her the text is fake and that the texter would eventually ask for your debit card number and security information to steal your identity. And a spokesperson for the State Employee's Credit Union wrote us in an e-mai "Unfortunately, text scams are prevalent. We always encourage members to notify SECU through their local branch or the 24/7 Member Services Line."

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