Series of text messages, emails alert women in US to their hacked accounts


According to a police report, the woman said she received a text message at about 2.30am stating that Yahoo! notified her of changes to her email account. — DARWIN LAGANZON/Pixabay

Two Trenton women went to police after they were targeted for identity theft and fraud, but safeguards alerted both to the attempts.

A woman was alerted via a series of text messages, one coming in the middle of the night, to fraudulent activity involving her name on various accounts.

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