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Revolute serious scam
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It's there.
Very scary fraud case on Livline today. Revolute account raided along with P.Office a count.
They set up an automatic transfer on her post office acc which transferred to her revolute account and then they robbed her revolute.
She managed to stop it after first transfer but got little help from either banks.
How did they know she has so much money in post office acc???????
Quite a clever operation.
She got an email from Revolute telling her that SHE had set up the auto transfer. By pure chance she heard the email come in on her phone at 1 a.m. She did manage tobget her account frozen.
She had difficulty getting either bank to take any responsibility. She did not take any actions prior to event, she didn't click on any links or such.
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Out of interest why do you think the bank should take responsibility?
Why do you think they shouldn't.
Her accounts were hacked, no fault of hers.
I've watched a number of TV programmes about people being scammed and Revolute have been mentioned on a number of occasions and often account holders on realising they have been scammed have contacted Revolute and asked them to freeze their account and it hasn't happened and the account holder has lost even more money
1) They aint even spelling is correct.... it is REVOLUT
2) 99.99% of these cases boil down to the total STUPIDITY of the ones scammed, emphasised by the inability to spell
3) I fail to see WHY banks should cover deficits caused by peoples moronic behaviour ( most common being clicking links from emails but many many other pathetically stupid things
I am sorry to be so vociferous but I see it time and again..
If you want to play with big kids toys ( such as the internet ) you either do it properly or pay the consequences
No, they were NOT hacked, she gave them the required information
Hacking an account means to decipher the account details, not be handed them on a plate
2) 99.99% of these cases boil down to the total STUPIDITY of the ones scammed, emphasised by the inability to spell
3) I fail to see WHY banks should cover deficits caused by peoples moronic behaviour ( most common being clicking links from emails but many many other pathetically stupid things
I am sorry to be so vociferous but I see it time and again..
If you want to play with big kids toys ( such as the internet ) you either do it properly or pay the consequences
No, they were NOT hacked, she gave them the required information
Hacking an account means to decipher the account details, not be handed them on a plate
If you ask me using the Internet safely should be part of the national curriculum, but as you say, in so many cases people fall foul of scams through sheer stupidity.
There can't be many people now who don't understand the risks in following Internet links blindly, buying from dubious websites or responding to emails that are unsolicited.
The old saying "if it seems too good to be true then it quite probably is" could've been created for the Internet.
Just as you can use the Internet to find "bargains" and unmissable "opportunities", so you can use the same Internet to find out if they're scams.
So..er…any idea how I get to add to my revolut card from someone else’s bank? Just asking like.
For a small fee I'll do it for you.
Or theirs??
She gave them nothing at all.
Hackers set up an automatic transfer from her post office acc for €4000 this transferred the money to her revolute acc and hackers took it from her revolute acc.
Luckily she saw emails generated by revolute confirming the setting up of transfer and another confirming a change of email address, neither of whuch she did.
She then contacted post office which froze the account which stopped transfers. Unfortunately one transfer had gone through and hackers got the money.
She had a very large sum in the post office account recently lodged.
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Their system is meant to be secure!
The ‘banks’ can’t be the fall back or to blame every time someone is scammed. Trust me (I have some experience in this area) when I say that the huge majority of financial scams are due to ‘user error’ or gullibility. Yes these bastards prey on the vulnerable but none of this makes it the banks responsibility. That is like blaming the police when someone gets burgled.
The banks generally take responsibility when they have been complicit in the fraud, normally failure of their own security measures, identification process or similar. And even then it is almost always the case that the victim has been fast and loose with personal data/passwords/etc.
Blame the fraudsters, not the banks. I can only speak from experience of the bank that I worked for - they spend a huge amount of money on fraud prevention and are pretty good at it, frequently spotting fraudulent transactions before the clients do.
She didn't click on any links.
See my response to Jaws.
It IS secure.... you are saying they spent countless hours working out her pass codes ?
Or some which way she GAVE them away ?
Think Occam's razor
1.Where did they get all her account details from..?
2.How were they able to create a funds transfer from one account to the other without her authorisation..?
3.How were they able to withdraw money from her account without her authorisation.?
There are security checks in place for points 2 and 3. Why were they not implemented by the bank and Post Office..?
I think there's more to this than meets the eye.
Bet she does all her transactions on an android phone