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https://www.helsinkitimes.fi/finland/finland-news/domestic/27030-police-warn-of-rising-cases-in-new-three-step-online-banking-scam.html
A new type of online banking scam is circulating in Finland,
with police confirming around 30 reported cases since April.
The scam, which unfolds in three stages, is designed to
extract banking credentials using automated calls and fake
customer service agents.
The Cyber-crime Investigation Unit of the Central Finland
Police Department issued the warning on Monday.
In the first stage of the scam, victims receive an automated
phone call claiming to be from a bank. The call, often from
a Croatian number starting with +385, states that
unauthorised transactions have taken place in the victim’s
online bank account. The message instructs the person to
press a key on their phone if they did not authorise the
transactions. Doing so connects the call to a person
posing as a customer service representative.
In the second stage, the scammer provides more specific
details, claiming that someone has logged into the victim's
account using a particular type of mobile device and sent
money abroad. The fake representative says they have managed
to cancel one large transaction but are having trouble
reversing a smaller one.
The third stage involves the scammer asking the victim to
log into a website using their online banking credentials.
. . .
People seem to always BELIEVE anything that comes
on-line from whatever SEEMS to be their bankers.
Expect this scam to explode globally REAL SOON,
including the USA.
It's more COMPLEX than most - but, ironically, that
boosts its "believability index".
LOOK ... get weird messages from your bank - GO TO
THE PHYSICAL BANK and ask what the hell is going on.
Ya know, talk to HUMANS .....
Wow, what a concept !
ANY and EVERYTHING 'online' can be easily FAKED.
It's become MUCH worse of late - with 'AI' getting
involved. Deal with PEOPLE at the actual business
places ! Don't like that - tuff titty. You're GONNA
get totally ripped off. Whine all you want, your
money is GONE - funding Vlad or Xi or some hacks
coke and hooker habits.
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