Number spoofing appears when then the fraudsters deliberately change the number that appears on one’s phone when it rings. This is to make it seem like someone is being called from their real bank or organisation.
Mr Alan Suleyman explained how these scammers were able to take his cash on BBC’s Rip Off Britain this morning. It is having a surge of popularity.
He said: “At no stage did I feel like his person was anyone other than a bona fide member of the bank.”
Scammers are able to mimic the phone number of one’s bank or trusted service to get people to hand over their cash.
Number spoofing was on the rise in May 2021. Ofcom warned people to not trust caller ID on their phones as a means to identify a caller.
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Mr Suleyman received a call from what seemed to be his bank.
Three weeks earlier, fraudsters had tried to use his bank card so a call to say someone was trying again was not a surprise.
He continued: “The lady told me my account had been hacked and my first reaction was, ‘Not again.’
“For her to allow me to continue to use the same card, she said she would have to take me though enhanced security.”
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He said: “When she got to the seventh time that she needed to verify, then I started thinking, ‘This can’t be right.'”
He decided to call his bank from another line and once he had actually connected to them, the scammers hung up the phone, reinforcing…
