New Scam: you get a text from your ‘banks fraud dept’ and they steal all your money

Always call your bank. Never take random calls from ‘your bank’

Joshua Dance
3 min readAug 21, 2023

Saw this sad story on TikTok.

You get a text from your bank saying there is fraud on your account. You identify a few fraudulent charges, they send you a PIN, and then they steal all your money.

It is very similar to this scam:

How the scam plays out:

  1. Get a text from a scammer saying there are suspicious transactions on your account, text 1 to ignore, 2 to fix
  2. They call you with a made up list of fraudulent transactions. You identify them as fradulent.
  3. They tell you they will send you a PIN to ‘verify your identity’
  4. You get a text with a PIN. You read the PIN to them
  5. They then use that PIN to access your account and steal your money.

How the scam works:

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