North Dakotans should beware of a phishing scam “making the rounds...
North Dakotans should beware of a phishing scam “making the rounds again,” the state’s attorney general warned. “In the scam, a phony customer service technician claims that work on cellular telephone towers in the area may disrupt cell phone service…
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for the consumer so the service provider is offering a credit on the bill to make up for any inconvenience,” Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem’s office said Thursday (http://xrl.us/bnv7nb). “All the consumer has to do is ‘confirm’ the billing address, the account holder’s personal information, and verify the account password, and the caller will give the consumer a confirmation number to be used to claim the credit.” The calls are ostensibly from AT&T and in the past, Verizon, the warning said. Victims’ hijacked lines can then face “hundreds of dollars of international usage fees,” according to the attorney general. The scammer “uses the apology as the hook and the promise of a credit as the bait,” he said.