Ubank scam: Melbourne man loses $20,000 in crafty new scam after a single real ... trends now
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An Aussie man has lost $20,000 he'd been saving for a house deposit in a sneaky new scam after he responded to a real 'random' text from his bank.
Initial flags were raised in January when the customer received a bizarre text message from a random Australian number with a 'Ubank' sign-off.
'Suspected fraudulent transaction of $0.00 has been detected … Please respond CANCEL if you would like us to cancel your card and reissue a new card to your address
The Melbourne man called his bank and was assured that the text was legitimate, a although the transaction may have been initiated by scammers as part of the ploy.
When someone claiming to be from Ubank called three weeks later, the victim trusted them enough to put in his PIN to confirm his identity in response to a request texted to him.
A customer was scammed three weeks after receiving this text which was confirmed as legitimate by his bank
The professional-sounding 'employee' with an Australian accent knew the last four digits of the customer's credit card along with his most recent bank account transactions.
The PIN provided was actually his security code - and all the the scammer needed to access
