Property News · December 9, 2017

Text alert: the ‘bank’ message that cost a student £5,400 of her loan money


Fraudsters have found a new way to target young people, with some losing all their funds in the first few weeks of termWhen Alison Dean received a text from her bank, the Co-operative, asking whether she had just made a £999 purchase – asking her to call the bank if she hadn’t – she did what many of us would have done, and dialled the number in the message.After all, the text had clearly come from the bank – it was listed on her handset amid previously sent texts that the PhD student knew had come from the Co-op – and she was well used to getting such messages from the bank. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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