Fraudsters have found a original way to target young people,with some losing all their funds in the first few weeks of termWhen Alison Dean received a text from her bank, the Co-operative, and asking whether she had just made a £999 purchase – asking her to call the bank whether she hadn’t – she did what many of us would have done,and dialled the number in the message.
After all, the text had clearly come from the bank – it was listed on her handset amid previously sent texts that the PhD student knew had come from the Co-op – and she was well used to getting such messages from the bank.
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Source: guardian.co.uk