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Saturday, June 6, 2020

The New Way Scammers Can Empty Your Bank Account Without Your ATM Card Or Phone

 
Before now Scammers need ATM card or mobile phone to fraudulently empty someone's Bank Account, but now they have upgraded their strategy, they don't even need your ATM card, bank verification number or even your mobile phone number.
There is a new high tech fraud in town called the SIM SWAP FRAUD, and hundreds of persons have already fallen prey to their schemes.  

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Here's how it works

1) A new fraud called SIM SWAP has started. Your phone network will momentarily go blind/zero (No Signal/ Zero Bars) and after a while a call will come through. 

2) The Person on the other end of the call will tell you that he is calling from (your cell phone company) depending on your network and that there is a problem in your mobile network. 

3) He will instruct you to Please press 1 on your phone to get the network back. That's it, don't even think of pressing anything. 

Please at this stage don't Press anything, Just cut or end the call. If you press 1, the network will appear suddenly and almost immediately go blind again (Zero Bars) and by that action, your phone is hacked. 

Within some minutes they will empty your bank account, and you won't receive any alert. It will appear as though your line is without network, but in fact, your SIM has been swapped.  
Swapping your SIM means exchanging your SIM card with them and thereby giving them full control of your account. The danger here is that, you will not get any alert of any transactions. So if you do USSD transactions and Mobile Banking be very careful. 

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What to do if you already made the mistake of pressing any number the Fraudsters told you to? 

Once you start experiencing zero bars of network, it's best to reboot your phone, doing that ends any hacking code they are doing at the moment. Don't answer any call telling you they are from your bank, your bank can never call you on phone and ask you to press 1 or any other number.
Also report any case of such experience to your bank to help you secure your bank account more and track the transaction.


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