When I play it back in my mind, I can clearly see points where I should have twigged – but I was blind to the signals
‘He told me that to finalise the process I needed to transfer an amount of money to the account manager.’‘He told me that to finalise the process I needed to transfer an amount of money to the account manager.’Last modified on Tue 24 Jan 2023 04.22 GMTlike to think that I am fairly savvy when it comes to online scams. I know not to click on weird links or give out my personal information, and that people can call and impersonate my bank.
It started with an SMS from what I believed was my bank, saying that someone had tried to set up a payment to a new payee. The text message said that if this wasn’t me, I should call the number provided. It looked completely legitimate and, because it was from a number I had previously received verification messages from, I had no reason to doubt it.
I soon spoke to a person who sounded like a bank employee. He got me to look at my account to see if there had been any other suspicious transactions – there weren’t – and after some time spent doing checks and putting me on hold to speak with “technical experts” he determined that it looked like I had been infected by a virus.This was incredibly alarming as it was our mortgage offset account, so my mind leapt to the fear of a significant amount of money being at risk.
After more than half an hour of going through this process – which I now realise was part of the process of gaining my trust – he told me that to finalise everything I needed to transfer an amount of money to the account manager, and that the amount would be randomly generated.
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