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Text message scam targeting customers, Manitoba Hydro warns

Some customers have received fraudulent messages indicating Manitoba Hydro has sent them money due to over-billing.

Customers are being advisednot click on the link included in messages

Scam text message received by customers from a sender purporting to be Manitoba Hydro. (CBC)

Customersshould be suspicious of incoming text messages promisingmoney funnelledinto their accounts due to overpayments, Manitoba Hydrowarns.

"Manitoba Hydro sent you funds due to an overbilling" reads a sample text, which alsodirects recipients to click on a hyperlink.

Do not click the link, and delete the message, Manitoba Hydro advisedanyone who received a message like this.

"These messages are not from Manitoba Hydro and are likely a phishing scam," a spokesperson from theprovincial Crown corporation said in a statement.

Fraudulent messages can appear to come from any random phone number because scammers can fake the digits in outgoing texts.

The hydro company hadno clue as to how many people have been affected by the fraud.

Manitoba RCMP were not aware of the scam.Winnipeg police could not be reached for comment on Saturday.

With files from Rachel Bergen