Valued Home State Customers
Please read the following message from the Kandiyohi County Sheriffs Office regarding a telephone/credit card scam active in the Willmar area:
Law enforcement and local banks are receiving a large volume of calls on an automated message that is being received via telephone (typically cellular). This message claims to be from a financial institution, and that the subject's ATM card or bank card has been deactivated due to an attempted fraud. The subject is then instructed to press "1" and enter their 16 digit account number.
This is a scam, and we are advising anyone who gets the call to not respond to the prompts. The scam has been run throughout the United States, and tends to hit a certain area or region at the same time.
If the financial institution mentioned in the automated message is an actual institution that you use, and you are uncomfortable about that, we would recommend you disconnect and make a direct call to your institution to check on your account status.
If you want more info on the scam, you can type the caller number into an online search engine.
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Telephone/credit card scam active in the Willmar area: