00:0048 scam alert be very skeptical of someone claiming to be with walmart telling you someone
00:06made a big purchase under your account one local woman received one of those calls
00:10waff 48's no account talked to her about this scary experience now karen boyd was going about
00:17her tuesday morning as usual when she received a voicemail that made her stop dead in her tracks
00:21hello this is linda calling from walmart's account security and fraud prevention department
00:27we are reaching out to inform you about a transaction of 2499 that was recently attempted
00:33using your name and account information for an online purchase our automated security system has
00:38flagged this activity as potentially suspicious boyd who has been scammed before says she immediately
00:44suspected the automated call to be a scam she called walmart to find that there were no charges
00:49on her account it's so hard now because especially for older people who you know aren't very computer
00:56savvy or tech savvy so and it's easy to get fooled had i not been scammed that first time i
01:03would have
01:03gone oh and panicked you know what do i do what you know how would i i solve this problem
01:09boyd says
01:10someone else she knows was sent a similar message from a walmart impersonator recently as well
01:14and they're far from the only ones countless others are taking to social media to warn the public about
01:19these scammers who claim a purchase was made at walmart cyber security expert mark socks says these type
01:24of scams are on the rise and ai involvement makes them harder to detect it adds a bit of realism
01:30to
01:30what's going on makes it hard to detect so use your common sense if it seems out of place if
01:35it seems not
01:36right if you know you didn't buy something and they're claiming you need to call them right now or
01:41click a link or something to reverse the transaction odds are pretty good it's not legitimate
01:47as our noah cowell reporting socks by the way says instead of responding to this urgent message
01:53do exactly what boyd did call the correct number online or go in person to make sure
01:58you don't have an unexpected charge on your account
02:01you don't have an unexpected charge on your account
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