Soldato
- Joined
- 11 May 2007
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- Surrey
Well, it looks like some nice person has managed to spend £80 on their PSN using my son's phone number to make purchases. He doesn't have a Playstation or a PSN account and he assumed that the OTP SMS that he received was phishing.
I've reported the fraud to o2 already and told them to block any payments made on third-party apps (it's on by default, and the £0 spend cap we have enabled doesn't apply to third-party payments - ridiculous). Hopefully the money is recovered and more action is taken.
The payments are via a third-party platform called Boku. Looking at their Trustpilot reviews, it seems this is a common thing and that the company is an absolute **** show to deal with.
My understanding of how this has happened is as follows:
- Scammers buy 10,000s of phone numbers at a time
- Methodically input numbers into accounts (such as PSN) to see if any are associated with a number
- If a number is successfully added, they then look to intercept SMS messages:
- Bingo. Payment made, OTP captured, rinse and repeat.
Has this happened to anyone else?
I've reported the fraud to o2 already and told them to block any payments made on third-party apps (it's on by default, and the £0 spend cap we have enabled doesn't apply to third-party payments - ridiculous). Hopefully the money is recovered and more action is taken.
The payments are via a third-party platform called Boku. Looking at their Trustpilot reviews, it seems this is a common thing and that the company is an absolute **** show to deal with.
My understanding of how this has happened is as follows:
- Scammers buy 10,000s of phone numbers at a time
- Methodically input numbers into accounts (such as PSN) to see if any are associated with a number
- If a number is successfully added, they then look to intercept SMS messages:
Has this happened to anyone else?