My Money? My info? I don’ t think so!

Don’t allow smooth-talking scammers to swipe your cash

Losing your money to a scammer may feel unimaginable – but picture yourself in this scenario and you’ll see how easy it is to be deceived:

It’s 8.30am, and you’re just about to pop to the corner shop for milk. But the phone rings – and it’s your bank, with shocking news.

They’ve uncovered fraudulent activity on your account.

You panic – it’s already hard enough to make ends meet from one week to the next. So the idea of money being stolen from your bank account is disastrous.

Yet the kind, concerned woman on the phone is reassuring. The bank can protect you. All you have to do is move your money out of the fraudsters’ reach into a safe account the bank has already set up for you.

You hesitate. Should you really be moving your money?

The woman on the phone understands – even says you’re quite right to question whether the call is genuine.

She quotes your bank account number and address for you to verify. What a relief. The call is obviously genuine. How else would she know those things?

So you go online and move your money to the new ‘safe’ account the bank has just set up for you.

Mistake. Big mistake. What you’ve just done is to ‘willingly’ transfer your money into a fraudster’s account.

Later, you tell a friend what happened. She’s worried, so you go back and check with your bank – and find it was a scam.