PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Phishing/vishing/smishing/pharming, non-payment/non-delivery, extortion and personal data breaches were among the favored attack patterns last year. As for the areas where scammers managed the biggest hits, business email compromise (BEC), confidence/romance fraud and spoofing were the top three types of crime in terms of monetary losses.

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The Fintech Times

DECEMBER 21, 2024

This increases the effectiveness of the delivery of smishing attacks as they appear to be coming from a legitimate sender. Fraudsters spoof the sender ID of financial institutions and send ‘smishing’ (SMS phishing) messages containing malicious links, aiming to gain unauthorised access to the financial accounts of their victims.

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The Fintech Times

DECEMBER 22, 2024

The texts and calls would pose as being from a bank, deceiving customers into believing that their account was compromised and encouraging them to transfer money into a safe account controlled by the fraudsters. The investigation Through the polices investigation, the DCPCU recovered two SIM farms from Oxford-Faparusi home.

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