Re: Beware - FAKE Fido Support Text & Website

Aquarice

Received a text earlier from +1-587-333-6488 with my name on it, saying 'Dear XXXXXX (my name), we have detected a unusual activity on your account, please verify it as soon as possible in the link below:

fidosupport.com'

I immediately called Fido's customer service to verify whether there was an issue with my account. The customer service rep, Oscar, said my account was fine. There was no issue with it. I then realised that this must be one of those fraudulent texts. I went to the fidosupport.com website & discovered that it was forwarded to another website url which uses the real Fido website graphics. For those who don't pay attention, they may think they are on the real Fido website. As immediately, the site asks for your phone no., password, date of birth & pin. Which who knows what this information will be used for.

The Fido customer service rep. was not able to get onto to the site to see for himself. And he wasn't able to get his manager to talk to me. I truly feel that a lot of people will get scammed by this. I'm hoping that the Fido team can raise send an alert/raise awareness to their customers so that they won't fall into these type of traps.

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Nathan_Lapierre

Got one that looks the same.

From +1-807-770-0288

My name is not in the text

However they have the right language I use for my account (French). (I like to keep French settings for my accounts because I can sort automatically English communications as fraudulent.)

It's about disactivating my account.

The message directs me to http://customers-feeds.com/Fido/desactivated-account.php

I will also report it at antifraud website

Cawtau

Hello Nathan_Lapierre,

Thanks for the information! You can also report messages by copying and fowarding them to 7726 (SPAM) for evaluation (see here).

Hope this helps

Cheers

marct65

Thanks for the warning. Someone tried thin on me on jan 26.

AdamBeast

You can also report it here:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/fraud-report/

https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/930167

Send an email to reportphishing@apple.com

Cawtau

Hello Aquarice,

Welcome to the community!

Thanks for the heads-up!

Cheers

Aquarice

Thanks Cawtau for being supportive!

FidoClaudia

Hey @Aquarice,

Welcome to the Community!

Thanks for your feedback. We're aware of those types of activities and while we do take many steps to help fight against them, the truth is we can't stop them all from attempting to go after our customers or anyone else online.

Always be wary of any altered web address and more importantly, never give out your personal info, i.e. as account number, date of birth, in an email or pop-up.

I'll definitely flag this to the right team and I recommend that you also report the incident to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre here:

Online: http://www.antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca/reportincident-signalerincident/index-eng.htm
By phone: 1-888-495-8501

Hope this helps!

Aquarice

Thanks FidoClaudia! I will certainly file a report accordingly.

I'm just hoping that the Fido database has not been hacked. As the text had my name & knew that I was a Fido customer.

FidoManuel

No worries Our databases are safe!

Aquarice

Hi FidoManuel,

Thanks for letting me know.

Keep up the great work!

FidoMaria

Always a pleasure @Aquarice

Paolo

Wow good catch my friend

Aquarice

Thanks Paolo.

Just wanted others to avoid falling prey into the hands of unscrupulous fraudsters!