<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">Gentlepeople,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">I received an email today from a respected professional who said that there is a new danger when you call the telephone number on the back of your credit card. There are apparently people who have found out how to hijack these numbers, so that when you think you are calling your bank you are instead calling a crook.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">Question: are you aware of any technology, methodology, back-door, or fault in some system(s) that allows this?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">My source says that to protect yourself, when you call, ask them to tell you something that they can only know about you if they have legitimate access to your account information, like the amount of your last deposit.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">Thanks for your insight,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">-steve</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394">PS: From my source's message:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;color:rgb(11,83,148);margin-left:40px"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Some
people have figured out how to hijack the phone numbers on the back of
bank and credit cards, and probably phone numbers that you would find on
a legitimate bank or credit card or other company website.</span></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#0b5394"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:40px"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">[A woman] got a call from “Microsoft”, claiming that she had a charge of
$2000 that had been “pre-authorized” by her bank. The caller said,
look, you don’t have to trust me, call your bank to verify. </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:40px"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> </span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:40px"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">[She] called the number on the back of her bank card, and got a
“bank official” who tried to walk her through a familiar scam, asking
her to withdraw her money from her bank account so that the
“pre-authorized” charge would not be able to be withdrawn, and to bring
the money to a bitcoin machine. Fortunately, she realized that
something was very wrong, and stopped the process and asked for help. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">My source cited </span><a href="https://moneyful.com/blog/yikes-crooks-are-intercepting-calls-to-bank-phone-numbers-on-back-of-credit-cards">https://moneyful.com/blog/yikes-crooks-are-intercepting-calls-to-bank-phone-numbers-on-back-of-credit-cards</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4">Snopes does not know about this, yet.</font></span><br></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><u></u> <br></span></p> </div></div>