MEDIA RELEASE
Police are warning of a possible scam involving text messages.
A 59-year-old Hilo man reported he received two consecutive text messages Sunday claiming to be from different credit unions. The messages asked the man to call a telephone number about his credit union account. The man didn’t have accounts with either credit union.
The first phone number was out of service. The second one had a recorded message asking the caller to leave his name and personal information.
Police advise the public not to provide personal information over the phone, by text message or by e-mail.
I received a text message asking me to call back a CU the other day. This is a real scam that is going on here in the islands.
I also have received an unusual amount of email scams from CU’s in just the last week or so.