When your bank is calling, you usually phone.
And if you have a person at the other end, pretending to be the adviser for your bank, it can maybe get the guard to fall.
The credibility of the exploits of a number of scammers at the moment with a cunning method to rip your account, warns the Nets.
- We have seen it since in the summer, and the scammers speak perfect English.
- They have used some tools to 'spoofe' phone number, so it looks like it is your bank calling, says Sune Gabelgård, who is head of svindelbekæmpelse in the Nets, according to DR.
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In the phone reads it, that the fraudster intends to cancel a transfer, and that the consumer will then receive a one-time - a so-called 3d text.
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one-time sms
A 3d sms be used as an extra security when shopping on the web.
By signing up for a netforretning is associating you with NemID your mobile number to your debit card. When you, after completing the registration, receive a one-time via SMS on your mobile phone, you must dial the code to enter on the screen which comes up in connection with your trade. You can then complete the deal in shopping.
the Solution ensures identification of the person making the deal on the web. However, the problem is just, that if the scammers already have access to your card number, then they will by the help of the one-time code to have unlimited opportunity to shop online from your account.
Source: Nets.
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If the code ends up with the scammer, is compromised happened. One's debit card is recorded in a app that can be used for the payment. On the way, the scammer use the app as a payment at the consumer's expense.
- It can run into many thousand dollars - potentially all the money in your account, says Sune Gabelgård, telling you that the Nets have registered at least 20 cases of this type of fraud, but it is estimated that there is a huge mørketal.
For the Nets is it good advice, that you must never reveal the engangskoder, you get sent to. And so, you only have to enter the code in connection with a purchase you make.
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