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Aware of a new fishing email banking scam doing the rounds. Obviously most IT literate folk know you should never click a link on an email purported to be from your bank, however there are some who still do.
They maybe older people, or those not familiar with the regular business bulletins you get alerting you to these kind of scams, so please make sure you remind those less IT literate folk, who may be more gullible thank yourself, not to be taken in by these scammers.
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Email banking scam alert on 09:47 - Dec 14 with 5269 views
Sadly, this is the world we live in, particularly when fraudsters can't physically intercept you so they now frequent the online world looking usually for important people to imitate and then con innocent victims out of their electronic savings which is the equivalent of the 1970's mugging in the street.
Most of the time (95%+) the victim has actually given their details away - usually because of poor IT behaviours such as insecure passwords.
HOWEVER, banks are increasingly wise to this and frustratingly in 8 out of 10 cases now don't pay out, particularly if you are responsible for leaking your own details and there is no chance of compensation.
These scams are often run by Organised Crime Gangs (OCG) so beware not to give out your bank details to them under any circumstances. Even if they appear to be rewarding you financially for something, be careful to know who you are dealing with.
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Email banking scam alert on 10:16 - Dec 14 with 5193 views
Email banking scam alert on 09:52 - Dec 14 by Boss_Hog
These scams are often run by Organised Crime Gangs (OCG) so beware not to give out your bank details to them under any circumstances. Even if they appear to be rewarding you financially for something, be careful to know who you are dealing with.
All very true sadly.
The other important message is if at any time youthink you might have been or are being scammed dont wait to confirm….ring your bank straightaway. Better to make a bit of a fool of yourself getting them to find out you havent been scammed than leaving it until you know for sure and they have cleared you out.
I am at an age where i have so much trouble remembering my bank details it forms an additional level of security for me.
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Email banking scam alert on 10:19 - Dec 14 with 5175 views
Email banking scam alert on 10:16 - Dec 14 by pioneer
All very true sadly.
The other important message is if at any time youthink you might have been or are being scammed dont wait to confirm….ring your bank straightaway. Better to make a bit of a fool of yourself getting them to find out you havent been scammed than leaving it until you know for sure and they have cleared you out.
I am at an age where i have so much trouble remembering my bank details it forms an additional level of security for me.
"You should wait for 20 minutes before you call your bank on a trusted phone number to check it out. This is because scammers are able to keep phone lines open. Whilst you think you are making a new phone call, the line is still open to the scammer who pretends to be a different person from your bank or the police. If possible, use a different phone or call somebody else in the meantime."
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Email banking scam alert on 20:00 - Dec 14 with 4514 views
"You should wait for 20 minutes before you call your bank on a trusted phone number to check it out. This is because scammers are able to keep phone lines open. Whilst you think you are making a new phone call, the line is still open to the scammer who pretends to be a different person from your bank or the police. If possible, use a different phone or call somebody else in the meantime."
I didnt know that…thanks for the warning and advice. On the two occasions I have had to call my bankI have used a different phone, but opportunistically as opposed to for the reasons you point out.
The other one to watch out for are these spurious Whatsapp groups that people add you to or invite you to or that you join with good intentions but where you don't know all the participants.
Some of these Whatsapp groups have over 100 participants and it only takes one infiltrator who then has 100 names, phone numbers etc.
You wouldn't wave your bank card under the nose of 100 strangers yet people do it without realising!
This is a really good article on the dangers of Whatsapp and how to protect yourself:
A couple of years ago, my late father fell for the telephone scams that are the other way of separating people from their own money.
By chance, an engineer working on behalf of RMBC was at his house installing an emergency contact system which would sense if Dad fell and hurt himself, and would alert the monitoring team if needed.
As the engineer was connecting everything together, he could overhear my Dad reading out his bank details over the phone. The engineer stepped across to him, took the receiver from him, told the caller that the call was hereby terminated and hung up, ensuring the line became cleared.
That single simple act spared my father the anguish of seeing his funds drain away.
I do not know the identity of that engineer. I wish I did, because his awareness saved the day and I would have wanted to thank him.
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