This … is slick

I’m still a few days behind, and while i have had a relaxing day, I still want to post things that are quite valuable or interesting.

This is particularly valuable because the bank in question was spoofed with its number directly from its page.

The boost from Celina Larson says: Selena Larson: Boosting Shoq (shoq): My brother just got hit by a really insidious bank scam. Scammers spoofed caller ID with citibank’s real online banking number and tell him “there was a fraudulent Zelle transfer from your account. Call Zelle at this number.” Fake-Zelle rep confirms fake case numbers that fake-Citi gave him, dazzles with still more bullshit and gets him to actually transfer money to them under some plausible sounding “fix” pretext. Slick. Citi says it’s a new one on them and are investigating ASAP.

I would have at least one question. During the call, did I (whoever it is) make any Zell purchases, transfers or the like? If the answer was no, i would’ve just hung up.

The fact is, only you! should know what types of transactions you’ve made and approximately when. If the scammer said the transaction was made yesterday as an example, you know you didn’t make any Zelle or any other transactions yesterday, than that’s your red flag.

Like was posted yesterday from Kim Komando’s newsletter and article, people don’t do basic hygiene and check their accounts, or at least have some idea of what has been charged, sent or the like.
We have various articles on our resources page on email host security of various scams similar to this.

Folk should peruse the articles and read what might be interested to them. The latest article is the one I linked to from this post.

We all can be duped, but if we understand what particular things might set us off after reading about it, we can all learn.

Tell the story, learn from it.