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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
My niece had something on gumtree for sale the other day, someone offered to buy it and then tried to take 6k out of her account with the details she gave them, the bank stopped it fortunately, when that failed they doubled down and went for 34k. Not sure it's the same though as those details were given and not stolen from a third party and it shows the banks are well on the ball, as they should be really
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Not sure how that fraud attempt could ever have worked. If it could, fraud would be absolutely rampant.
The nearest thing would be if they knew the account holder well enough to get past the security questions, when they tried to transfer money over the phone.