Never trust phone numbers or links in SMS messages or incoming phone calls.
Benoit-Kurtz points to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which hasdocumented several such telephone call scams.
One of the first is the urgency.
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Banks and financial institutions will never demand information in that way," pointed out Benoit-Kurtz.
Benoit-Kurtz asserted that people should never give out this information to anyone.
Never trust phone numbers or links in SMS messages or incoming phone calls," advised Scrano.
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