{"id":28090,"date":"2016-05-24T23:40:46","date_gmt":"2016-05-25T06:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/first-national-bank-warns-of-text-message-scam\/"},"modified":"2016-05-24T23:40:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-25T06:40:46","slug":"first-national-bank-warns-of-text-message-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/first-national-bank-warns-of-text-message-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"First National Bank warns of text message scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MasterCard customers across the state Tuesday reported receiving text messages in a fraudulent attempt to gain private banking information, according to a press release by First National Bank Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>Valerie Bale, First National\u2019s vice president of electronic banking, said there hasn\u2019t been a breach in customer security yet, but officials want to get the word out to prevent a breach from occurring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do not use text message alerts to notify cardholders of possible fraud,\u201d Bale said.<\/p>\n<p>More than 50 customers from various Alaska regions have reported getting the message, which reads: \u201cThis is a message from MasterCard. Your [D]ebit [C]ard is [l]ocked. Contact [u]rgent 844-334-4730.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alaskans who believe their information may have been compromised should immediately contact their bank, Bale said. Bank officials have reported the incident to MasterCard headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>Bale said the phone number customers are directed to call is currently sending out a busy tone, but customers are likely being promoted to enter their card number, expiration date or pin code. MasterCard never directly contact cardholders to request personal credit or debit card information, Bale said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MasterCard customers across the state Tuesday reported receiving text messages in a fraudulent attempt to gain private banking information, according to a press release by First National Bank Alaska. Valerie Bale, First National\u2019s vice president of electronic banking, said there hasn\u2019t been a breach in customer security yet, but officials want to get the word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-28090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28090"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=28090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}