Warning: check your bank details from time to time!

Nitefly

Nitefly

Nitefly

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Had a bit of a scare this week - received a letter from my bank and it said to call them re: fraudulent transactions.

I called up and they said I had to go in-branch to sort it with ID. Mmm’kay… no dodgy transactions showing but might as well go in.

I went in this morning and after a lot of questions it turns out some fraudster(s) had managed to change my email address associated with my account :eek: - there had been various attempted transactions with card details and also my card added to another iPhone - yikes.

The only way they could have done this, apparently, is by calling up getting through security - which would require full details, or by having my telephone number compromised in some way (!?) so they could access my banking app. I still have no idea how that would work…

Anyway, worth checking in from time to time to make sure you’re not subject to similar mad h4x!
 
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Only my finger print can use my banking app afaik. Or a password, I have different passwords on all of my important logins.
 
the shadow said:
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www.theguardian.com

‘I was in despair’: how lending a phone led to life savings being stolen

Thief went on £9,000 spree with the victim’s money before using her Uber account to travel to Stansted
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www.theguardian.com

Sim-swap fraud: How your bank account can be emptied by phone

Criminals are using personal data to get hold of a replacement sim, take over your mobile and then clean out your savings
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The first one is sad. But at end of the day it was her fault. It's **** though and makes you think. Many would do that. Hopefully not with all the pin/password details written in the phone or in the case!

Second one is elaborate and certainly makes you think about that open banking stuff!
Glad the bank refunded that one.
 
this kinda thing will be all to common with WFH and giving jobs to people in poorer countries where the incentive is higher.

I'm sure you will get the muppets working in cafes with their laptop on full display breaking GBPR laws too....
 
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Worth spending some time figuring out how they might have obtained these details to close the loop. Also a wake up call to change your security questions for that account plus all others that use similar questions.
 
413x said:
The first one is sad. But at end of the day it was her fault. It's **** though and makes you think. Many would do that. Hopefully not with all the pin/password details written in the phone or in the case!

Second one is elaborate and certainly makes you think about that open banking stuff!
Glad the bank refunded that one.
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Saw the first one earlier this week but that last one is concerning the number of people who want your email addy for the most trivial things as well as card called car breakdown service want my card and my addy recovery company wants my email to send a receipt for new battery... someone in the last couple of weeks has leaked my email because there has been a rash of spam lately not just viagra type crap but full phishing attempts, reported and blocked a load last night. You can see how this stuff happens.

It doesn't help when even genuine or what look like genuine emails from the bank look like phishing attempts I've got one sitting in the junk mail folder because I'm not sure is it spoofed or is it real?
"Be careful of advance fee scams <my name>"
then after a lot of guff theres a big button thats a link to
"Learn more about Fraud and Scams"
- so you want me to follow a link from a suspicious email to lord knows where....right. Genuine or a spoof site? I've no idea. Either way I'm not following that link.
 
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Did you lose any money? Sounds like you got away with it, but wow that's sobering.

SIM cloning is a thing in think. But the fact they were able to get through security is amazing. I can't get through it because I keep getting it wrong! :cry:
 
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Has he got a sim pin ... I thought that was the lesson to be learned from all the phones compromised/stolen in gyms,

? clean windows install ... thought he was using the *more* secure banking app on an iphone

Blackjack Davy said:
"Be careful of advance fee scams <my name>"
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yes agree those stupid emails (santander in particular) are beyond a joke - I should start forwarding them back to someone on the banks board with a sarky comment.
 
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