Text message scam aimed at unemployed

By Rita R. Robison / March 5, 2011

Attorney General E. Scott Pruitt and the Oklahoma Employment Security Commission issued a warning this week on a text phishing scam aimed at unemployed Oklahomans.

For details see my WalletPop article “Texting Scam Targets Jobless.”

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