BOA Alert Scam, Explained (June 2024)
This video exposes the BOA alert scam arriving in a text message claiming there's an issue with your account. A helpful user described the scam message in a Facebook post, which supposedly comes from [email protected]. The user posted: "I received a scam message from [email protected] telling me that my ATM card has been temporary (sic) suspended. For spits and giggles, I called the supplied number (with caller ID blocking (*67) enabled). Of course, it asked me for all of the information needed to access the card and all of the accounts."
Scammers send the BOA alert scam to fraudulently take money from you, not Bank of America. They hope you'll see the text message displayed as coming from [email protected] and then contact the phone number included in the message, which goes straight to scammers. They aim to deceive you and other recipients into believing the phone number is affiliated with Bank of America. In reality, the phone number connects to scammers in an unknown country, where they pretend to be Bank of America.
When I first saw Google users searching for BOA alert scam, I figured it was another simple bank text message scam like many others I've seen before. However, I was surprised when I found the Facebook user's post revealing the reason behind the searches. It's the displayed email address that's likely fraudulent too. It's a crazy world we live in.
My best advice if you were involved in the BOA alert scam and gave out bank information is to close all scam messages and find the legitimate phone number for your bank from the bank's official website. They can help you resolve your situation, but I am unsure if they can recover your money.
To learn more about this scam and others, I recommend exploring my YouTube channel and checking out some of my past videos. Search for the two words "bank scam." You might find some helpful results. Thank you for watching.
A photo shot by Masrur Odinaev from Wikimedia Commons was used in a thumbnail for the A/B test for this video.
