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[Closed] How do scammers create a fake bank account?

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Went into Halifax BS yesterday with one of my best Nigerian customers to talk about his bank account. He's been phoning in for a couple of years, identifying himself then getting no further because he's not been able to tell them the balance. Yesterday it emerged that somebody has created a fake account under his name with an address in Camberwell, got a card made, transferred £10,000 over and operated the new account for a month before anti-fraud shut it down. Somebody has been phoning the bank in his name and demanding that the account be reopened but HX have refused, thank God.

So how did they create the extra account and order up a card? It's gone to the Complex Impersonation Team for investigation and my customer looks like having to extend his stay in order to get the cash he needs to pay school fees.


 
Posted : 26/09/2018 1:31 pm
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I can see the headline now...

Scammer learns how to scam from Mountain Bike Forum..


 
Posted : 26/09/2018 3:56 pm
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Fake ID.

It took him a couple of years to fix this? Dear me I thought I was disorganised.


 
Posted : 26/09/2018 4:00 pm
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Given the number of fraudulent transfers which take place, the answer has to be 'with great ease'.


 
Posted : 27/09/2018 9:55 am
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It took him a couple of years to fix this? Dear me I thought I was disorganised.

This is his first visit to the UK in about five years.


 
Posted : 27/09/2018 9:58 am
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It’s really easy to do..

Its not the setting up, but the activity tracker that alerts Risk.. then, well investigation starts.


 
Posted : 27/09/2018 10:12 am

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