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Text scam reported to police

Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 12 years, 9 months AGO
| April 13, 2012 9:00 PM

COEUR d'ALENE - The scams arrive almost daily via phone calls and emails. Add text messages to the list.

A Coeur d'Alene woman told police on Wednesday around 8 p.m. she received a text message from a phone number stating it was from the Credit Union Center notifying her that her debit card had been deactivated.

The woman called the number and an automated service picked up and asked for her debit card number.

"She entered her card number into the phone. After entering the number, it asked her for the expiration date on the card. She became suspicious and hung up the phone," the police report said.

The woman then called her credit union and was told it does not do business by texts and the one she received was not from them.

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