Fraudsters using family impersonation to prey on customers during holiday season
A spike in ‘family impersonation’ text messages reported in July 25% increase in customers falling victim to “Hi Mum/Dad” text scams Increase coincides with holiday season, with family members likely to be away from home Never trust text messages – stop, think and check! Bank of Ireland is warning of a high volume of family impersonation […]
New Fraud Text-Checker service launched as three in four report receiving fake texts
74% of the adult population have received a fraudulent text appearing to be from their bank – up 37% since 2021 Bank of Ireland introduces Text-Checker service for customers to verify texts Cybercrime expert, Professor Mary Aiken advises: ‘Stop, Think, Check’ A new Text-Checker service to verify if text messages are legitimate has been launched for […]
