As a real estate underwriter at a regional bank, I order title work for loans that I am working on. Normally we close non-purchase loans in-house unless requested otherwise. Lots of the attorneys and title companies require that funds be wired. I have seen a couple of them lately where the wiring instructions were password protected and you had to call them for a password to even open them. The closers also contact the office doing the closing to match up the CD or HUD and wiring information gets verified before being sent. The loan administator or credit officer have to approve outgoing wires.
I could see where an individual sending payment for a transaction could be easily misled though.
I spent an hour on phone with BOA correcting the scam of $4500, which was not done by ATM but. with a teller.
A few hours later, I get an alert from BOA that my checking account was now in the debit side, and they were paying from savings account. The amount? $888,880. For real. I didn’t have a 2:00 patient, so ran over in person. Hyperventilating. “I thought I had frozen and cancelled this account.” Turns out, BOA made that withdrawal so no one could gain access to that account. I still don’t understand why someone hadn’t told me that would happen.
Family member was suckered into remote access tech support, they did not pay the $100+ wanted to fix the issue, but did allow remote access.
I am running Kapersky and thinking this is the catalyst to switch to a password manager, but what does one need to do to check on key loggers or other malware that could bite you later?
I highly recommend changing all of your important account passwords using a DIFFERENT computer.
I would treat this computer as a person with active asymptomatic covid. Quarantine. I would not use USB sticks to move files off this computer to another.
Isn’t Kapersky owned by Russians and possibly a vehicle for hacking in itself? Thought I read that somewhere. Correct me if I’m wrong. It stuck in my memory because at one time they were a sponsor of NE Patriots radio broadcasts and remembered their name when I read of the Russian connections.
I’m just venting, I’m waiting for call back from local police.
Everyday I learn of something else ordered “by me”. Today it was a new iPhone and a subscription to Consumers report. From 9 am until now I have been calling and changing stores, insurance companies, etc. 20-30 hours so far? No end in site
Wow! I never had a reason to post on this thread before, but last month I posted about my sister’s wire-fraud near-disaster, and this week my S’s friend was just victimized by check-washing, which is apparently checks in the mail diverted, written over with new amounts to someone else, and then cashed. Apparently it’s an epidemic in the town she lives in here in North Jersey. She went to the police and said it was the sixth report they got that day! I have to assume they will figure out the source(s) eventually.
I’m not sure how it’s done, or why the perpetrator is not traceable, but yikes. Now she’s closing her accounts and waiting for the bank to recover the money. Dreadful. (Before any anti-check-writing comments, sometimes you have to, for instance if a landlord doesn’t do e-payments.)
I got a text earlier today telling me that my Uber code is XXXX. I didn’t order any Uber, and I’m not about to click on the link in the text. Nor am I going to respond with STOP.
I’ve gotten several voicemails in the last week about taking care of my “tax debt.” They’re so eager to help.
H just got burned by an online scammer. He placed an order from Olga Morley - dot - com without checking it out first. Credit card was charged. Merchandise was reported delivered but when he checked the tracking (which was likely phony, too) it showed it going to the same name city in a different state but with no street address shown. Emails bounced back, there’s no phone number and no other way to contact them. The charge will be credited back and the credit card is now being replaced. It’s a pain since the card is one I regularly use for several things including curbside grocery pickup. I was not surprised when H told me that the price of the item was about 20% of what well known retailers charge. If it sounds too good to be true…
I got a series of emails telling my debit card was compromised for a bank where we don’t have an account. They wanted me to call back with my account and SSNs.
Then this weekend I got a scam text from Venmo, which I don’t use.
I had a very convincing scam email from Microsoft saying I had a login attempt from an unrecognized device. I had to Google what Microsoft says about these types of emails. The email address was the giveaway, though quite similar to real one.
My son is selling his car. He’s had some obvious scammers. This latest message from a “buyer” seems totally scammy to me. Not sure how it works though.
It seems off to me for some reason. I would wait several days even after the check clears to make sure there are no issues. Or I would request that they bring cash.
He placed an order from Olga Morley - dot - com without checking it out first. Credit card was charged. Merchandise was reported delivered but when he checked the tracking (which was likely phony, too) it showed it going to the same name city in a different state but with no street address shown. Emails bounced back, there’s no phone number and no other way to contact them. The charge will be credited back and the credit card is now being replaced. It’s a pain since the card is one I regularly use for several things including curbside grocery pickup. I was not surprised when H told me that the price of the item was about 20% of what well known retailers charge. If it sounds too good to be true…