{"id":11672,"date":"2020-07-14T21:46:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T05:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=11672"},"modified":"2022-05-01T22:59:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T06:59:38","slug":"telus-bill-error-refund-text-message-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/telus-bill-error-refund-text-message-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Telus Bill Error Refund Text Message Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I guess these things are still going on where today I saw a text message on my phone claiming that the telecommunications company Telus accidentally billed me for something they shouldn\u2019t have.  Therefore, I should click on the link to find out more.  The message stated the following from the number 1-240-322-3127:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/msg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"11673\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/telus-bill-error-refund-text-message-scam\/msg\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/msg.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1440,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"msg\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/msg-169x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/msg-576x1024.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/msg-576x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-11673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/msg-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/msg-88x157.jpg 88w, https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/msg-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/msg-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/msg-300x533.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/msg-950x1689.jpg 950w, https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/msg.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TELUS: CAD75.5 want sent [REF#2688] due to an error charge on your last bill.  Click Here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Of course I did not click as these things as they usually try and steal your information.  The obvious factor on how I knew this was a scam too is that I am not even signed up with the company.  As usual, delete and ignore this stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess these things are still going on where today I saw a text message on my phone claiming that the telecommunications company Telus accidentally billed me for something they shouldn\u2019t have. Therefore, I should click on the link to find out more. The message stated the following from the number 1-240-322-3127: TELUS: CAD75.5 want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[5234,865,272],"class_list":["post-11672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-money-making-scams","tag-refund","tag-scam","tag-telus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/9.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-32g","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11672"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13847,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11672\/revisions\/13847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}