Detailed educational breakdown of this scam — how it works, red flags to watch for, and how to protect yourself.
Detailed educational breakdown of this scam — how it works, red flags to watch for, and how to protect yourself.
Detailed educational breakdown of this scam — how it works, red flags to watch for, and how to protect yourself.
Detailed educational breakdown of this scam — how it works, red flags to watch for, and how to protect yourself.
Detailed educational breakdown of this scam — how it works, red flags to watch for, and how to protect yourself.
Detailed educational breakdown of this scam — how it works, red flags to watch for, and how to protect yourself.
Your phone was stolen an hour ago. Maybe in Milan, off a café table. Maybe on a Paris métro platform. Maybe walking down a street in London with the phone in your hand — the single most common way iPhones are taken in European cities.
Your phone buzzes. It is a notification from BANCOMAT Pay — the real app, the one your bank told you to install, the one you use to split dinner with friends and pay the babysitter. The notification says someone has sent you a payment request.
This one has a cruelty to it that is worth naming up front.
Something genuinely unusual is happening to Dutch payments this year, and the criminals got there first.
It arrives in the last two weeks of August. You are a student. You have just spent the summer working, or travelling, or doing nothing at all, and the administrative side of your life has been on pause for eight weeks. Your inbox has a backlog. And sitting in that backlog is a...
The subject line lands somewhere between annoying and terrifying, which is exactly the register it's aiming for: