There is also more than one scheme
Posted: Mon Feb 10, 2025 10:14 am
What to do? As Sherlock Holmes said: "Elementary". Just call the bank where your accounts are serviced, the bank employee will explain everything to you. If the card is blocked, they will tell you in detail what needs to be done to unblock it.
Or you receive a text message asking for help: "Mom/Dad, this is my son/daughter, etc. I have problems, send 900 rubles to this number. Don't call me, I'll call you back myself."
What to do? Call the indicated relative, if he exists, of course, on the number that you have, and not on the number of the SMS sender, since this could also be an extortion number, a call to which costs a large sum of money.
for phone calls from scammers. The most popular are calls "from bank employees" and "from law enforcement agencies."
The "call from the bank" scenario is quite standard. Basically, fraudsters call bank clients under the guise of the bank's security service or financial monitoring service and report that a suspicious transaction has allegedly been made on the card. And in order to check whether it was you or not, to confirm the transaction, to save your money, they begin to find out your login details for your personal account or information on the card, such as the 16-digit number, the owner's name, expiration date and CVV code (three-digit code on the back), as well as the code from the SMS from the bank to confirm the transaction. The attacker may also ask you to install additional software.
Bank employees from the security service or financial monitoring service have access to all the necessary information, and there is no point in them calling you to clarify it, unlike attackers.
You should never give out the CVV code or the argentina whatsapp data from the SMS from the bank. The information is secret for a reason, so you shouldn't tell it to anyone.
Regarding software: banks can only recommend their own, no additional ones.
How to behave in such a situation? Try to end the conversation without giving any information to the caller. The bank employee will not interfere with this, unlike the attacker. He will try to prevent you from hanging up by any means - this is one of the proofs. Call the bank where your accounts are serviced and report that you were called with a request to explain the situation.
Or you receive a text message asking for help: "Mom/Dad, this is my son/daughter, etc. I have problems, send 900 rubles to this number. Don't call me, I'll call you back myself."
What to do? Call the indicated relative, if he exists, of course, on the number that you have, and not on the number of the SMS sender, since this could also be an extortion number, a call to which costs a large sum of money.
for phone calls from scammers. The most popular are calls "from bank employees" and "from law enforcement agencies."
The "call from the bank" scenario is quite standard. Basically, fraudsters call bank clients under the guise of the bank's security service or financial monitoring service and report that a suspicious transaction has allegedly been made on the card. And in order to check whether it was you or not, to confirm the transaction, to save your money, they begin to find out your login details for your personal account or information on the card, such as the 16-digit number, the owner's name, expiration date and CVV code (three-digit code on the back), as well as the code from the SMS from the bank to confirm the transaction. The attacker may also ask you to install additional software.
Bank employees from the security service or financial monitoring service have access to all the necessary information, and there is no point in them calling you to clarify it, unlike attackers.
You should never give out the CVV code or the argentina whatsapp data from the SMS from the bank. The information is secret for a reason, so you shouldn't tell it to anyone.
Regarding software: banks can only recommend their own, no additional ones.
How to behave in such a situation? Try to end the conversation without giving any information to the caller. The bank employee will not interfere with this, unlike the attacker. He will try to prevent you from hanging up by any means - this is one of the proofs. Call the bank where your accounts are serviced and report that you were called with a request to explain the situation.