Bjorn Toft Madsen
I was the victim of an extremely clever card fraud/social engineering hack.
Well, partly a victim since I managed to stop it.
I was called by my bank, as they wanted to “verify some suspect transactions on my account”.
Then things got weird…
🧵
I was informed that there had been a charge for £2900 on a travel booking site.
As this conversation with my bank’s counter-fraud team was happening, I logged into my bank account and could see the fraudulent charge.
“Was this you?”
No, it definitely wasn’t me. Phew, well done for catching it.
“Also, sir, there is another transaction occurring right now that seems odd - for £5900 at Marbella Boat Hire. Is this you?”
@BjornToftMadsen I had something weird happen with my credit card earlier this year, when I got a call from the bank, I can't honestly recall exactly what happened now but it definitely had a fraudulent transaction and I was called to check about that and a second within a short time frame, I was super alert about the bank *calling me* as that alone felt weird, but in the end it did appear it was actually the bank as the card got cancelled immediately and I didn't have to do anything else.
But I had been very reluctant to give them any more information and in hindsight I kindof wonder if it might have been priming me for a bigger scam, and could it have been a scammer that got my card cancelled? Tempted to call them and check the history after reading the above... 🤔
@BjornToftMadsen I had something weird happen with my credit card earlier this year, when I got a call from the bank, I can't honestly recall exactly what happened now but it definitely had a fraudulent transaction and I was called to check about that and a second within a short time frame, I was super alert about the bank *calling me* as that alone felt weird, but in the end it did appear it was actually the bank as the card got cancelled immediately and I didn't have to do anything else.