August 2021 IDM Special Edition
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Impressed that they have some of this info you begin to trust them.<br />
They may even ask you some security questions to harvest more<br />
information from you. Wow, these people are serious about your<br />
safety (or so it seems).<br />
They then tell you that someone is performing suspicious<br />
transactions on your account. Oh no, what must I do?<br />
They tell you that they are going to send you some One Time Pins or<br />
passcodes to stop the transactions.<br />
Then your phone starts to get OTPs they are busy making transfers or<br />
purchases on your account.<br />
They ask you to tell them the code you just received, so that they can<br />
stop the payments being made. In the mean time they are actually<br />
using those OTPs to complete the transaction themselves, with your<br />
help!<br />
A big part of this scam is to pressure you, and make you feel the<br />
urgency of stopping such payments. They do not give you time to<br />
think or time to hang up and call the bank directly (which is what you<br />
should actually do).
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