Security Tales: A Call from the Bank
Vladimir Bezmaly | 13.06.2019
On this summer day Potapych was waiting for his lovely wife, Maria Mikhailovna, or simply Mikhailovna, as all her friends called her, to return from vacation. He baked some pancakes and decided to drink tea with pancakes and last year's linden honey. But as soon as he sat down at the table, the telephone rang.
- It was good. You called. And I was going to have some tea. What happened again? Visiting? Run, let's have some tea together.
- I'm with the cheesecakes. Open the gate, I'm already standing here.
And now the Hare is already sitting at the table, taking out his mother’s delicious cheesecakes.
— Nothing happened to me, thanks to your lessons, and I came to tell you how scammers tried to scam me. Yesterday they tried to access my bank account through a phone call. And although I am technically savvy, and in general a rather attentive comrade — until the last moment I was sure that I was talking to a bank employee. But in the end I didn’t believe it, and I was right! Thank you! You taught me!
- Well done! And how did it happen?
— The phone rang in the morning. The number was identified as saved in my contacts “Lesnoy Bank Support”.
- Good morning! Hare?
- Yes.
— Your date of birth? (Here the caller states my date of birth.)
- Yes.
- This is the bank's security service. We have recorded a suspicious transaction, we wanted to clarify, you just transferred 42 thousand to the name of ...
- No.
— That's what we thought, so we did iceland whatsapp data right. Since the payment was marked as questionable, it was frozen for 10 minutes. Have you lost any cards recently?
- No, I didn’t lose it.
— Check if they are all in place?
- Yes, everything is in place.
— Nevertheless, the attackers have gained access to your online banking account and are now trying to withdraw money from there. You will need to block and reissue all cards, change your computer. Do not log into your personal account now, we have also blocked access to it for security purposes.
- Good morning, Potapych! What are you doing?
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