An online seller took action against a text scammer by addressing their grammar mistakes.
Karen Santiago-Libunao, a Facebook user, revealed that she recently received a text from an unknown number, which pretended to be a bank’s warning message.
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The message stated:
We have notice that someone’s trying to open your UB account. Please be advice that you need to secure your Account immediately, Please visit unionbnk-caresph.info
In response, Karen decided to correct the scammer’s grammar.
We have noticed*
Please be advised*
you need to secure your account immediately. Please*
UnionBank told its customers last month not to trust fake text messages from the bank.
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It said that a message is fake if it has a message that is urgent or scary, if it comes from a source you don’t know, or if it has links that look wrong or sketchy.
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