Sunday, 2 June 2013

Text Message Scam

A woman who had been shopping at the grocery store in the mall noticed that her handbag was missing from her shopping cart.  She had only turned her back to it for a few moments however, now it was gone!  Flustered she looked about and rushed to alert the store Manager who phoned to report it to the police.  Her handbag had contained her money, cell phone, credit card, bank card and wallet etc.

20 minutes later when she called her hubby from a pay phone telling him what happened, hubby says, "Oh no!  I received your text asking about our Pin Number and I've just replied a little while ago!"

The damage had been done!  When they rushed down to the bank, the bank staff told them all their money was already withdrawn.  The thief had actually used the stolen cell phone to text "hubby" in the contact list and got hold of the Pin Number.  Within 20 minutes he had withdrawn all the money from their bank account.

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