If your [bank/credit union/credit card company] has detected suspicious activity on your account, they are NOT going to call you on the phone! They will simply refuse to honor your card and then wait for YOU to call THEM!!
Think about it!
You go to the store or you go on line to buy something and your card is denied. What will you do? You will flip the card over and call the 800 number on the back of the card. The person who answers will ask you a few questions to verify you are the real card holder (and the answers will not be anything on the card or anything likely to be in your wallet which might have been stolen). You may need to make the call from your home telephone so they can see YOUR CID.
If there has been improper use of your card, they are going to cancel the card and mail you a new one at your request.
They will NEVER, EVER call you from an automatic system and have a voice like R2D2 ask you to enter your sixteen digit account number.
These calls are ALWAYS SCAMS -- attempts to obtain information which can be used to bilk someone of money! You become that someone as soon as you enter your card number!
Call received at 3:50 AM CST. Automated system told me that my First National Credit Union account has suspicious activity and has been frozen. Requested I press one to speak with a rep, at that point I disconnected the call.
I don't have any accounts that resemble what was described on the call. Don't think a legit call would come before 4:00 AM.
Received a call at 4:45 am saying that there was suspicious activity on my First Community Credit Union account by a third party. They asked me to press 1. I did so and then the automated system asked for additional information and I hung up. I called the credit union later in the day and they stated that they did not make the call but my account was fine.
I assume they call in the middle of the night trying to catch people off guard.
I got a call from 734-513-7707 on my cell phone at 12:34pm on 3/31/2009 indicating that there was suspicious activity in my credit union account. However, I NEVER had an account at the credit union named in the message. Clearly this is a hoax.
Also got a call from the same number 734-513-7707 at 1:00 AM!!! So when I got up this morning I Googled the number and found this page. Anyone know what this number is for? Who it is from? It is just annoying!!!!