Last Week's Most Recommended - Online Threat Alerts (OTA) - Scams - Frauds

NFCU has received reports about fraudulent text messages circulating, claiming NFCU texts will originate from numbers like 21398 or 40554 starting Feb. 16th. Please be aware that these texts are NOT from them. If you receive a text regarding your Northern account that you weren’t expecting, don’t respond. Instead, contact NFCU directly....

The fake Docusign email, which claims PayPal customer service sent the recipients a document to review and sign, is a scam. The Docusign email scam is being sent by scammers attempting to trick potential victims into clicking the link in it. The link goes to a fake and phishing PayPal website that steals account credentials, personal, or financial ...

There is no "Samsung Mobile Promo Draw" lottery. Therefore, the email message below, which claims that the recipients are lucky winners of the Samsung Mobile Promo Draw, is a scam that is being sent by lottery scammers to their potential victims. Therefore, recipients of the fake email message should not respond to it or follow the instru...

Beware of deceitful Facebook users who are posting pictures of sick, starving, dead and injured children, adults or animals on Facebook, to trick other Facebook users into commenting on them by typing "Amen," in order to make them popular. This type of activity is another Like-Farming scam, and the photos or videos in them are being used ...

321 Greetings is a legitimate security-related site used for phishing tests. It is NOT a greeting website. Companies use it as a phishing test - they send their employees an email purporting to be from 321. If they fall for it and click through, the IT department sends them a reply letting them know they fell for a scam and educate them about it....

It seems that the Flash Rewards system is a scam. They have promotional deals that you complete in order to get a gift card. The scam is, they say you must complete X number of deals in a specified timeframe (ie 20 days). It's fast to complete deals, but they don't credit you right away. It may take a week or more to get credited. And, you ...

I keep getting the Comenity Bank scam text messages below asking me to call 877-213-6644. The link goes to Comenity Bank's website but I am not familiar with the telephone number. Therefore, I recommend that recipients of the same text messages call the bank using the telephone number on their card to verify the legitimacy of the text messages....

This is another Geek Squad Subscription scam email for 2025. Every year scammers send out fake Geek Squad Auto-Renewed Subscription emails, which they use to trick potential victims into contacting them at the fake customer or technical support telephone number 1-888-63-0241. If contacted, the scammers will steal their victims' account credenti...

I ordered a Jetsono from a YouTube advertisement linked to www.jetsono.com. It was £24.86, or near that price, as it was impossible to return to verify the initial page stating that the price was £24.86 (more or less). Before going to checkout, I was asked to pay and chose PayPal as the payment method. PayPal verified me and sent me a cod...

The "Geek Squad Subscription Renewal" scam below is being sent by online scammers who are attempting to trick their potential victims into calling the fake Geek Squad helpline number 1-855-531-9789. Therefore, recipients are asked not to call the fake telephone numbers. The legit Geek Squad telephone number is 1-800-433-5778....

Instaportal located at instaportal.net is a scam. The website tricks visitors into believing they can hack Instagram accounts, but all it does is pretend as if it doing something. After showing progress bars, which it does to pretend as if it is doing something, will claim the accounts were hacked and then take visitors to a phishing website that r...

I want to warn everyone of the Wells Fargo text scam below from 801-899-6106. I received the text followed by a phone call from the scammer pretending to be a Wells Fargo fraud representative. I knew Wells Fargo never calls, however, they do text but what also made me alert is that the text never came from a 10-digit number. Be on the lookout for t...