I got a text message from 18888745817 saying that I had a recent restriction on my account. I knew that it was a scam because I have no credit cards with a company of this name. I called just to see what they would say and they even went as far as to ask for my cvc number. RED FLAG!!!!!

I have received a text message at 4.40 PM on Mar 21st.
Below is the message:
8772352101@cs.usbank-email.com / / U.S.Bank. Please call us immediately at 1-877-235-2101 regarding recent restriction placed on your account.
I tried to call this number but never connects.

credit union n.a.   Please contact us immediately regarding recent restriction on your account.

Received text on 1/30/2009 at 6:35 AM ET.

"8888745817@bantele.no//Credit Union N.A. Please call us immediately at 1-888-874-5817 regarding recent restriction placed on your account. Thank you."

I have an 808# with T-Mobile (from UpNext, Ala Moana), but kept the number and live on the east coast.  Very lame scheme.

give us feedback. Thanks. I think I'll do that too. I wish there was a way to block them or something..

Every Number range for every carrier is public knowledge and freely available.  There is no selling, someone just has to look the number ranges up.

I got one also on 1/30/09 at 1am. Sounds like everyone's getting it around the same time at the 808 area code. I'm going to call T Mobile to find out. In the meantime I also got a text of the same thing stating it's from Aloha Pacific Credit Union. the number is 1-866-925-2651 on 2/1/09 at around 12:30pm.  Be careful

thank you for this importtant imformation...but u know i called it anyway to hear what they have to say to me but it was a disconected #.

BIG PHISHING SCAM.IGNORE / REPORT AND DELETE...

SAME WITH TEXT FROM 8669252651@KALANET.COM

Yup, me too! These people also are texting from 866-925-4932 and 866-734-6243. They claim to be "Miami Dade Federal Credit Union" and "Dade country FCU". Same scam as the numbers you have all listed above. Same exact recording.

Hmmm. I'm w/ T-Mobile...I wonder, if like another poster wrote earlier, they've somehow managed to get a list of T-Mobile numbers? Scary!

NEW NUMBER  1-866-925-2037
just like 1-888-874-5817 but this time Pacific Federal credit union.
They ask your account number, pin number etc..

we cannot do anything about this?

Another text I got was to call 1-800-679-8951 asking the same thing as this number. Also got the text to call above number. What is going on!

Take two valiums and call me in the morning!

Or should that be valium'

Or valiuii maybe?

No one SOLD your phone number. Don't point fingers at Cell Phone providers just because YOU don't know how things work. This is why.

People think that spammers do this:

1) Buy phone numbers from cell phone companies
2) Send spam!

Really now? It's that simple? WOW! Are YOU THAT SPECIAL? No. You are not. You are a simple 1 or 0. That's it.

This is how it is:

1) TSpammer targets specific group such as 1-888-874-xxxx
2) TSpammer writes automated and randomized code to send tspam texts either by cluster array (physical or distributed) or by inserting it into a virus of his or her choosing which explains why the phone number and website within the spam no longer exists. The virus is still lingering after the spammers got busted or moved on to another target.

"buying" a phone number list from ANYONE is a sign of a true sucker and unfortunately, spammers are always a step ahead. They aren't suckers. They know that people are generally stupid and will fall for basically everything. They also know that 99% of population will have absolutely no idea how all of this is happening. They know that the blame will be pointed to............cell phone companies. GO FIGURE, EH? WEIRD! It would be MORE work to utilize information such as a friggen phone number list. No one is sitting there typing out emails to send to text recipients. It's a randomized code engineered to cause people to willingly screw themselves and to cause confusion and guess what. It works.  It works people people don't know things.

Stop it. Stop enabling............them :)

i also got this text the other night, im in the mainland but have an 808 number and also have tmobile....i also cant log in to my tmobile online account because it says there have been too many log ins!

by the way also a tmobile subscriber-
Also just now another textApplication Center this is an automated message from First Hawaiian Bank. Your ATM card has been suspended to reactivate call urgent at 1-888-874-9525.  I don't have a ATM card from this bank!
What is going on?

call us immediately regarding recent restriction on your account. cuna.org, credit union NA 2:29 AM Hawaiian time

me too, about 3:30 as well.  Bad enough my phone number was likely sold by my cel provider, but I have to pay for the text and I get it at the most indecent hour!

Watch Out For Scammers Pretending To Be Your Credit Card Company's Fraud Department

When a strange person calls you on the telephone claiming to represent a company you do business with and asks you to give them sensitive personal information, tell them that you'll call them back on the regular customer service number that you usually use to contact them.

http://consumerist.com/380116/watch-out-for-s ... raud-department

I too got this text message from 18888745817 at 5am Hawaii time.
Thanks for the tips.

same phone details as the rest of you....something can be done....go to the following link and file a complaint!  Scum who try stuff like this should be prosecuted!!!! https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/

Wow--me too.  Was really tempted to call it, but then checked my accounts...everything looked normal, so I thought I'd google it and voila!  Am also an 808.

Thanks for writing everyone.

Oh and by the way, I also have T-mobile.

Same, here, I'm from Kalihi and I received a text that told me to call the number immediately regarding a recent restriction on my account.  I thought it was sketchy, because I never had a credit union/bank text message me before. I called it the next day and it told me the number was no longer in service. So I googled the number and found this forum. Thanks for letting me know it was a scam.

I got my call at 3am.  Stating the same as everyone else, call now about a restriction on account.  I am ALSO with t-mobile.  I tried to call and it just rang and rang.  Thanks you to everyone posting here to let me know it is a scam.

I received this text on my cell this morning, but did'nt respond because it did'nt sound or look familiar: Please call us immediately at 1-888-874-5817 regarding recent restriction placed on your account. Sender3594

Are we all T-Mobile subscribers? To the subscribers with no message bundle, we will all be charged.  I checked mine online and the charge for that message is already posted.

I also received the same text message from 8888745817@banetele.co// Credit Union.  Thanks to all for reporting this scam.

Received a call from my son saying that he was unable to withdraw money from any of his accounts.  A HOLD had been placed on all his accounts.
A text message gave a 1 888 8745817 number to call.  What a SCAM.

got it too this morning 330am.  tmobile Hawaii number.  you know if you don't have a text plan with tmobile you actually have to pay 5cents for every one of these spam messages you receive!!!