Associated Press
September 4, 2008
GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- An e-mail survey sent to Grants Pass area residents that offered $90 simply to answer some questions for a bank turned out to be too good to be true.
Police say it was a scam run electronically from Valencia, Spain.
The e-mail used a phony Home Valley Bank logo and asked for personal information the real bank says it would never request by phone or e-mail.
And the scam hijacked a phone number for a health care organization in Wisconsin as its fake contact number, forcing the organization to waste time answering a number of angry phone calls before the scam was discovered.
Home Valley Bank has blocked any transactions involved with the scam.
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I got a call at work from someone claiming that my bank account at Home Valley Bank had been cancelled a day ago, I hung up immidiately. They are not too bright as they reached a medical scheduling office but I suppose they are using a scatter-shot approach not really caring to be specific.