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Have you ever been scammed/tricked into moving money via your Online Banking.

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Ohdeeree · 06/02/2020 22:57

Im interested to hear of victims who have been scammed into sending money from their Online Banking. Usually the fraudsters impersonate Amazon, BT, your bank, Microsoft, HMRC.

From research, customers have been utterly tricked into thinking they will be arrested /receive a refund /involved an internal investigation if they don't cooperate. Sometimes, they trick customers into moving their money to a 'safe account'. Customers tend to lose thousands.

Id like to know,
-What made you realise it was a scam?
-What could your bank have done to stop this on your account ? Baring in mind some banks do stop these and customers have been coached what to say during a stopped payment.

  • What was the fraudster like with you?

What should banks do to protect their customers more?

Thank you.

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mencken · 07/02/2020 17:29

journalist?
'please take one' degree subject?

this has been done to death. And by people whose spelling is better.

Ohdeeree · 07/02/2020 20:46

@mencken. Nope!!! Not a journalist nor do i have a degree. I genuinely have an interest in people's experience as it indirectly relates to what i do in my job day to day.

I'm not interested in people contacting me outside of mn etc.

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Ohdeeree · 07/02/2020 20:48

@mencken. If you want to be picky, your punctuation is no better Hmm

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mencken · 08/02/2020 16:39

what's wrong? If you are blubbering at starting a sentence with 'and', that is ok for millenial speak now it seems.

I do know the difference between 'baring' and 'bearing' which is what made me laugh at you. And your apparent inability to use google. There is SO much advice available on this topic.

Ohdeeree · 08/02/2020 20:40

@mencken Biscuit

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BigPinkFlower · 08/02/2020 21:01

Yes- my son got me to pay £51 by bank transfer for deliveroo tonight. I was certainly conned as I ahem just seen the receipt in the bag and it was only £46- seems he had a code and pocketed the discount

The bank should bar all parents from being able to transfer to their teenagers

ASureSign · 09/02/2020 23:07

I genuinely have an interest in people's experience as it indirectly relates to what i do in my job day to day

Well I hope your job isn’t being a scammer. 😅 It seems an odd post if you work for a bank or the police or similar.

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