Ever been pestered with fraudulent phone calls, text messages and emails? Well, many people find this to be distracting and even annoying.
is advising customers to take extra precautions and are being warned of a scam that aims to obtain personal or account-related information.
“Some cybercriminals have shifted their approach and are targeting consumers directly through known and trusted channels of communication,” a PNC spokesperson said. “One such scam involves fraudulent outreach via text, email or phone calls. These communications appear to be initiated by PNC, but instead are being sent by a fraudster in hopes of obtaining customers’ personal or account-related information.
“We take these matters very seriously, and continue to take these measures to protect the security and privacy of our customers,” the spokesperson added.According to , some attempts via email or text messages have included “unauthorized activity” on an account and instructs you to call an 888 phone number where a person on the other line asks for personal identifying information, including an account number., if a customer happens to receive these fraudulent attempts via email, phone calls or text messages that appear to be from PNC, officials recommend not clicking on the text or email links.
Also do not respond to requests for personal or financial information such as full credit card numbers or social security numbers and forwarding suspicious emails and screenshots of fraudulent text messages to PNC Abuse,
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