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1-877-362-2803 is a Scam. Is Acxiom Corporation-Delivery.Net a Criminal Enterprise?

On Sunday afternoon, I received the following alert: "smsbanking@t-mobile.delivery.net: Message from [Name of my Bank]. Not a sales message. Call us at 1-877-363-2803 immediately about your recent account activity. Thank you." I was startled, but knew not to call. I have never signed on for mobile banking. How would they have obtained my phone number?  Instead, I Googled the phone number. There were no hits for that number - and certainly no permutation of that phone number was associated with my bank.  I then thought about the nature of the ISP. t-mobile.com is a subdomain of delivery.net. I thus Googled "delivery.net." It's a spam website, owned by the Acxiom Corporation. (Acxiom Corporation 601 E. 3rd St. Little Rock, AR 72201 US.)UPDATE: I Googled the text of the message, omitting my bank...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on September 28, 2009 (boomark / email).