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When you log into your bank, credit card, or other online account (Amazon, your health insurance website, etc.), you might receive a text message or email containing a verification code.
Use a phone number you trust, such as the number on a past statement or a verified number from your phone's address book. Beware of unsolicited messages claiming something’s wrong with your account.
User being asked to dial a number or a send a message which helps the server identify that the number is genuine and valid. With the advent of smartphones, type 0 or type 1 SMS are also being employed to send the codes which are used to verify the genuine user. Soft tokens generated within the smartphone or push messages can also be used.
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
A SIM swap scam (also known as port-out scam, SIM splitting, [1] simjacking, and SIM swapping) [2] is a type of account takeover fraud that generally targets a weakness in two-factor authentication and two-step verification in which the second factor or step is a text message (SMS) or call placed to a mobile telephone.
Screenshot of a typical SMS Banking message on a mobile screen. SMS banking is a form of mobile banking.It is a facility used by some banks or other financial institutions to send messages (also called notifications or alerts) to customers' mobile phones using SMS messaging, or a service provided by them which enables customers to perform some financial transactions using SMS.
What are 800 and 888 phone number scams? If you get an email providing you a PIN number and an 800 or 888 number to call, this a scam to try and steal valuable personal info. These emails will often ask you to call AOL at the number provided, provide the PIN number and will ask for account details including your password.
The SMS may also include transaction data, allowing the user to verify that the transaction has not been modified in transmission to the bank. However, the security of this scheme depends on the security of the mobile phone system. In South Africa, where SMS-delivered TAN codes are common, a new attack has appeared: SIM Swap Fraud.