Phone Scam

Most-reported scam number in a BeenVerified analysis of 150,000 complaints. Sends smishing texts claiming your Wells Fargo accounts are locked and urging you to call back or click a link. Do not click links or call numbers sent by text; contact your bank via its official app or the number on your card.

Impersonates Publishers Clearing House, telling targets they have won a prize and must pay fees or share personal data to claim it. The real PCH never asks winners to pay to collect a prize.

Marketing-style prank calls using the Ghostface character voice from Scream 6, often spoofed and reported by recipients as harassment or fraud-adjacent robocalls. Caller ID can be faked via VoIP, so the displayed number is not trustworthy.

Smishing messages claim your card has been locked and push you to "verify" via link or call. Designed to capture full card numbers, CVVs and banking credentials. Contact your card issuer using the number printed on the back of your card.

Smishing texts claim your debit card has been frozen and urge immediate action through a link or phone number. A classic bank-impersonation scam designed to steal card numbers, PINs and online banking logins.

Second number tied to the AT&T raffle winner smishing campaign. Messages push targets to claim a fake prize through a phishing link. Delete the text and report it to 7726 (SPAM).

Switches between two scripts: threats of unpaid taxes requiring immediate payment, and a fake Dyson vacuum prize/purchase. Tax agencies never demand payment by text, gift card, or wire. Hang up and verify directly with the agency.

Sends fake "failed delivery attempt" texts with a link to reschedule a package. The link leads to a phishing site that harvests personal and payment information. Carriers and couriers never ask for payment or login details via text links.

Sends texts warning that your bank account is "temporarily on hold" and prompts you to verify activity via a link or callback number. This is a credential-harvesting smishing scheme; banks do not verify accounts through unsolicited texts.

Impersonates USPS with texts about undeliverable packages or address confirmation, linking to a cloned postal site that steals card details via a small "redelivery fee." USPS does not request payment by text.

Calls and texts promise student loan forgiveness or expedited relief, then harvest Social Security numbers and FSA IDs or charge upfront "processing fees." Federal loan forgiveness is free — never pay or share your FSA login.

Alternates between fake weight-loss product offers and failed-delivery texts. Both lead to phishing pages that capture card details under the guise of a small shipping or order fee.

Texts claim the recipient has won an AT&T raffle or prize drawing and must click a link or call to claim it. AT&T does not run prize drawings by unsolicited text; the link harvests personal and billing information.