Phone Scam

[Guest]

what the **** is wrong with a bank that lets this happen ????????????????????????????
and sasktel? these people did nothing , didn't answer a call, a scam , or click on an email ?????
these banks need to wake up ?
surely to christ there is a way to make a trail back to the scumbag when money is transferred out ?????

[Guest]

Anyone know which bank this was ?

[sumdumguy]

They must have taken their phone in to get fixed or switched phones. I don’t do any banking by phone nor Ipad. I can still walk and there still are banks. And for sure banks should be responsible for transferring your money to some foreign account if you’ve never done that before. If they can just transfer your money anywhere without your authority, the risk is monumental. When we make transfers not only do you need the pin, you need this special key, an electronic screen with randomly changing code every few seconds. Someone would need your account number, your pin and this special key. Its a bit of a pain but I guess it is necessary to avoid false transfers.

[Blaithin]

Did they say which bank? (I can’t get that link to work easily on my phone. Irony 😂)

My Facebook was recently extremely hacked and it made me paranoid so I deleted my banking app. However when I e transferred my hay guy this fall my bank called in under half an hour to confirm it was me because it was “an unusual amount”. Maybe they wouldn’t have been so concerned if it was a direct transfer and not an e transfer? Either way it impressed me that they were that prompt.

[parsley]

I use a different password for every account.

I clear my cache and history after every time I deposit or transfer of pay bills online from my app.

I set it so they ask me a question when I log on the website.

Might help. Pars

[sumdumguy]

CBC has the article on the Johnson family from Peebles this morning. Their farm account got totally cleaned out. Seems there have been other cases like this all over Saskatchewan yet this is the first we hear of this scam. SaskTel, banks, police and social media have a responsibility to alert people to these dangers. Sounds like when your number is transferred, all the info goes with it. Seems crazy to me.

101, can you post the article - please? The comments beneath the article give lots of food for thought. People put all their personal info, like birthday, all movements on Facebook - not good idea. 😳

[Guest]

I put port protection on ours Yesterday
Lady at sasktel thought it was another carrier that ported the johnstons phone !
You would think sasktel would be having meetings about meetings about this

[Guest]

Sure seems to be a secret who the bank was ?

[farming101]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/family-farm-port-out-scam-1.5443580 https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/family-farm-port-out-scam-1.5443580

Not sure if this is the one you're thinking of

[jazz]

I am confused. If you called up and tried to switch your accounts to another bank on purpose, thats a hard process. The banks make it hard for a reason, they dont want you to switch. They would really quiz you and especially a couple hundred grand getting transfered.

I wonder if this is a bank thats not one of Canadas 5 majors. Sounds like a Tangerine or HSBC type move.

[jazz]

I keep only chump change in my daily accounts just enough for groceries and a coffee.

Any big sums in my business account get invested so to transfer those out, the scammers would have to first call the brokerage and get them to sell the stocks, then its a 3 day settlement to cash in the brokerage account and then a physical transfer request would have to be made. Lots of checks along the way.

CDIC insures deposits up to $100k I think.

[grassfarmer]

I am confused. If you called up and tried to switch your accounts to another bank on purpose, thats a hard process. The banks make it hard for a reason, they dont want you to switch. They would really quiz you and especially a couple hundred grand getting transfered.

I wonder if this is a bank thats not one of Canadas 5 majors. Sounds like a Tangerine or HSBC type move.

You seem easily confused, yet you post continually like you're an authority on everything. It was the phone accounts that got switched, not the bank accounts.