New research warns that fraudulent phone calls are increasing in popularity amongst the criminal community to commit ID theft and that everyone needs to be on their guard to avoid falling victim – on or offline. One possible use for these bogus ‘bank’ calls is to utilise personal identification information stolen using malware to give fraudsters credibility as they collect the missing information required to ‘pull off’ their scams.
- NEIL STINCHCOMBE
- InfoSecurity
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