Possible phone scam

I had an interesting call earlier. Was supposedly from Verizon, something about system upgrades. The woman said I would get a text message, which I did, then to verify for her the number that was in the text. I noticed after giver her the number that the text was a temporary password. Shen then asked for my PIN, which is where I hung up. I then logged into verizon.com and changed my password. So far no problems. Where do I report a possible scam?

You can forward the text received to 7726 (SPAM) As far as reporting the phone number, see if this article helps: Fraud FAQs | Verizon Wireless

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