Coast Central CU has advised the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) that its call center has received numerous calls from members and non-members indicating that they received fraudulent SMS text messages that purport to be from Coast Central.
It is believed that they are being sent to 707 area code numbers in hopes of getting clicks or calls. All the URLs are from the “inet2” domain with the “.org” top-level domain (TLD) extension. Examples include:
To view visuals of what this looks like, click here.
Coast Central is definitely seeing its members experiencing fraud, and there are financial losses associated with this smishing campaign. Your credit union and members can avoid becoming a victim of a smishing attack by following a few simple steps:
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