Beware of the home banking scam, through which some bad guys try to extort money from the unfortunate person on duty. This is what it consists of.
In order to counter the spread of Covid, we are asked to pay attention to various precautions, such as social distancing. The latter, in fact, seems to contribute to registering an increasingly massive use of the various technological devices, such as smartphones and PCs. Starting from social networks up to instant messaging apps, in fact, we are really spoiled for choice.
The growing interest in this way of communicating, however, in addition to offering numerous advantages, also hides many pitfalls. Unfortunately, the varonline scam attempts, through which some bad guys try to extort money from the unfortunate person on duty. These include the scam ofhome banking, which risks making many users fall into the trap. This is what it consists of.
Home banking, beware of the fake operator: new scam attempt
Unfortunately, every day I am there are many scam attempts to which you must pay the utmost attention. More and more often, in fact, some cyber criminals try to extort money from the unfortunate person on duty through traps that have been studied down to the smallest detail. The new one is an example home banking scam, after which you risk having your account emptied within a few minutes. But how does it work?
Well, this scam attempt starts with sending a sms which invites the recipient of the message to view a link. The latter, as you can easily imagine, is a fake reproduction of the bank’s website, through which scammers try to get hold of the user’s home banking credentials. A well-known scam attempt, so much so that, fortunately, I am now very close to falling for it.
Hence the decision of the scammers not to stop at sending the simple text message, but to build a real trap. Shortly after sending a text message, in fact, they call the potential victim on duty, informing her that someone has broken into her home banking through the link sent previously via text message. The scammer on the other end of the phone, then, invites you to provide your home banking access data by telephone, in such a way as to stop the attempted fraud.
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Too bad that just by providing your data to the fake telephone operator you end up falling into the trap and seeing your current account empty within a few minutes. The invitation, therefore, is always to pay the utmost attention and above all never give access data to anyone to your home banking.
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