Telephone identity theft scam threatens SMEs
| Date Added: Wed September 19 2007 |
The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is urging bank customers not to give account details out to cold callers.
They said that consumers across the UK had been telephoned by people claiming to be from the OFT. They asked them for their personal and financial information with the story that they could reclaim bank charges on their behalf.
An OFT spokeswoman said: "The OFT has been made aware of a scam involving consumers being telephoned by people, alleging to be from the OFT, asking for personal and financial information including their bank account details in order for the OFT to reclaim bank charges on their behalf.”
"The OFT is warning consumers not to pass on personal or financial information to cold callers either over the phone or via e-mail, and if they have already done so, to contact their bank as soon as possible and review their credit card and bank account statements to see if there have been any unauthorised transactions." |
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