Text Message and Bank Account Number

Scams
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I will keep this short since the FTC and IC3 have already been informed of this in greater detail. I received an email saying that my services were needed for what at the time seemed legitimate. In any case, I had contact with this person/people through both email and text message. The red flags did not start going off until this person kept texting me that “she overpaid me (fake check) accidentally” and that I needed to deposit a certain amount back". Now at that time I was working full time so the repeated texts were annoying and finally (maybe too late) prompted me to look up the phone number. Definitely a scam. The amount that I was supposed to give back was to a person with an African (dare I say Nigerian?) name. This is when I contacted the FTC, IC3, and local police department. I since have reported and blocked the number.

I received numerous texts from **512-666-1173** saying some variation of the following (I will just put down the first message):

MAKE DEPOSIT TO THIS ACCOUNT:
Bank: Chase Bank
Account name: Sandra Okonkwo
Account Number: 359105050

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@SaarMar#82592 Hopefully you’re safe and didn’t transfer anything. It’s close to impossible to get any money back unless you immediately call the bank to reverse payments.

It’s always good to report these scams even though they won’t do anything about it since the criminals are sitting in Africa and international cases are expensive and usually not worth it due to lack of trusted authorities and cooperation there. But still it increases fraud in crime statistics which gives them a hint that these crimes are on a rise and then might be they will allocate more ressources to combat this in future.

Also welcome on our forum :slight_smile: