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Oregon Community Credit Union
The Oregon Community Credit Union is investigating fraudulent charges made to some customer accounts following a text message scam over the weekend.
The messages were sent out before 6:30 a.m. Saturday to both members and nonmembers saying their credit union accounts had been closed due to unusual activity and listing a Florida phone number to call.
When they called, an automated message told victims that they would need to give three pieces of information, starting with their debit card number.
At least 2,000 people called the credit union to report the scam. Eugene police also got a number of calls.
The scam is called "phishing" -- a way to fraudulently get personal information electronically.
Oregon Community Credit Union said this morning that it's "under attack" from people sending fraudulent cell phone messages to credit union members that their accounts are closed "due to unusual activity."
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We'd like to welcome Lisa Hylton to Willamette University and to the Pearl District. Here's a little info about Lisa. Be sure to say hello if you're at WU!Lisa Hylton is the Recruiter-Admission Counselor for the Willamette MBA for Professionals at both the Portland Center and the Salem Campus. She is responsible for recruiting and recognizing qualified applicants for the MBA for Professionals program, helping them through the application process, and assisting them all the way through graduation.
Lisa began her career in non profit management as the General Manager of the Eugene Concert Choir, a resident company of the Hult Center for the Performing Arts in Eugene, Oregon. She received her Master's of Music in Voice Performance and Pedagogy from Westminster Choir College in Princeton, New Jersey in 1997 Putting her newly acquired knowledge in management
together with her passion for music proved to be the perfect synthesis. After serving the Choir, Lisa took a position as Business Development Officer for Oregon Community Credit Union.
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