An Ontario woman is out $86,000 after receiving a call from a fraudster claiming to be a Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) investigator. They told her that her bank accounts were involved in a money laundering operation.
  • Rentlar
    71·
    8 months ago

    SOP at my major bank for verifying myself over the phone used to be to read out numbers from my debit and credit cards. Now my bank uses SMS 2FA.

    The fault lies partly in the fact that 7 numbers of your card can give all 16 numbers away.