- Kirill, what should we do?
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Security Tales: A Call from the Bank
Vladimir Bezmaly | 10.02.2020
Thanks to his profession, Kirill could work from home. Their company encouraged it. And today he stayed to work from home.
Two hours passed. Suddenly my wife's phone rang.
- Hello, is this Tatyana D.? This is the security service of the Nadezhda bank calling you.
- Who's there?
- Kirill, this is from the bank, the security service. The number is a city number, "round" (symmetrical, with zeros).
— Turn it on loud.
In a well-trained voice of a tech support worker, the caller says: "Hello. We have recorded a request to withdraw funds from the card of such-and-such citizen for such-and-such an amount. Is this your request?"
- No, of course, I didn’t do that and the request wasn’t mine.
- Ok, thank you. Then we block this request, this is fraudulent activity and an attempt to deceive you. Please come to our office to block your cards and protect your money.
— It seemed like a normal call, the conversation was appropriate. It looks like the real bank security called us. They don’t ask for personal data. They ask to come to the nearest office of their bank. That is, no catch, no doubts — everything is authentic, everything is as it should be.
- Tatyana, can you hear us? What other bank ghana whatsapp data do you use?
— More? Bank Agro.
- Ok, thank you. We'll pass the information on to their security service, they'll contact you.
Everything seems to be going well, right?
An hour passed.
The phone rang again.
- Tatyana, this is the security service of Agro Bank calling you.
The number is also a city number and "nice", close in numbers to the real bank security call center (who will notice the difference in one digit?). And then follows a long technical conversation.
— I received a call from the security service of the Nadezhda bank, they talked about some fraudulent attempts to gain access to the account. But they blocked them.
— We'll check now. Stay on the line (the phone plays standby music).
- Thank you for waiting. We checked, you had several attempts to write off funds in the last hour and a half - for such and such amounts.
Vladimir Bezmaly | 10.02.2020
Thanks to his profession, Kirill could work from home. Their company encouraged it. And today he stayed to work from home.
Two hours passed. Suddenly my wife's phone rang.
- Hello, is this Tatyana D.? This is the security service of the Nadezhda bank calling you.
- Who's there?
- Kirill, this is from the bank, the security service. The number is a city number, "round" (symmetrical, with zeros).
— Turn it on loud.
In a well-trained voice of a tech support worker, the caller says: "Hello. We have recorded a request to withdraw funds from the card of such-and-such citizen for such-and-such an amount. Is this your request?"
- No, of course, I didn’t do that and the request wasn’t mine.
- Ok, thank you. Then we block this request, this is fraudulent activity and an attempt to deceive you. Please come to our office to block your cards and protect your money.
— It seemed like a normal call, the conversation was appropriate. It looks like the real bank security called us. They don’t ask for personal data. They ask to come to the nearest office of their bank. That is, no catch, no doubts — everything is authentic, everything is as it should be.
- Tatyana, can you hear us? What other bank ghana whatsapp data do you use?
— More? Bank Agro.
- Ok, thank you. We'll pass the information on to their security service, they'll contact you.
Everything seems to be going well, right?
An hour passed.
The phone rang again.
- Tatyana, this is the security service of Agro Bank calling you.
The number is also a city number and "nice", close in numbers to the real bank security call center (who will notice the difference in one digit?). And then follows a long technical conversation.
— I received a call from the security service of the Nadezhda bank, they talked about some fraudulent attempts to gain access to the account. But they blocked them.
— We'll check now. Stay on the line (the phone plays standby music).
- Thank you for waiting. We checked, you had several attempts to write off funds in the last hour and a half - for such and such amounts.