As consumers grow more savvy online to possible email scams, fake lotteries and phishing expeditions, scammers have had to be more clever and find new angles to catch unsuspecting victims for their criminal schemes. One of the newest is “vishing”.
This scam involves a notification to the victim that their credit card has been deactivated for some reason. The victim is then instructed to call a phone number that purports to be the credit card company, and enter his card number in order to reactivate it.
But the card was never deactivated and the victim is not calling his credit card company, he’s calling the scammers and punching his card number in on his phone pad. The scammers now have what they wanted.
Scammers are getting better at disguising themselves, too. Routing their emails through legitimate companies’ email systems makes it harder to trace them and keeps them looking respectable. Read more about these tactics in this article in The Cincinnati Post.
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