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Please be advised that the County of Hawai‘i has been experiencing issues since Tuesday (Sept 10) with receiving email from the public.   The Department of Information Technology is currently working with our support vendor to identify the issue.  We anticipate the retrieval of any back-logged emails, and will respond them as soon as possible. We […]

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The Hawaii State Judiciary continues to receive reports of email scams, in which emails purporting to come from Hawaii State Judiciary offices or staff are being sent to individuals worldwide. The most recent email scam claims to be from a bailiff and instructs the individual to vacate his or her premises and to click on […]

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The scam usually asks the victim to send an amount of money to someone so they can claim a much larger amount. This is a scam that has been circulating for years. In one variant, the suspect sends the intended victim a check for one amount asking that a different amount (usually slightly smaller) be […]

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From the Chase website: “Phishing” (pronounced “fishing”) occurs when criminals use e-mail, phone calls, or text messages to try to lure you to fake websites, where you’re asked to disclose confidential financial and personal information, like passwords, credit card account numbers and Social Security numbers. While the most common type of phish is an e-mail […]

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More scam emails are arriving via email preying upon credit union members. The email, text and phone messages are phishing for account information. Police advise the public not to provide personal information over the phone, by text message or by e-mail. Aloha Pacific Federal Credit Union on their website warns: FRAUD ALERT – Text and Phone Scams […]

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