Re: "'Scammers stole £40k after EDF gave out my number"

On 2025-03-07 08:37, Chris wrote:

Java Jive <java@evij.com.invalid> wrote:

On 2025-03-06 16:37, Brian Gregory wrote:

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On 06/03/2025 13:54, Java Jive wrote:

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But how would they know which banks, savings accounts, etc, to target
without additional information?

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They're hackers after money. They are not lazy. They try them one by
one. Why would you think they wouldn’t bother to do that?

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Doesn't sound likely to me, they want the money, but they wouldn't want
to take unnecessary risks of getting caught,

 How would they get caught? They're using stolen identities after all. Worst
case scenario is that access is blocked.

At some point they need to cash or transfer the moneys to their own account. This probably happens on some country that doesn't collaborates much with the police of other countries.

 Also if the email account is webmail, they will have access to the old
emails from e.g. your bank.
 

and randomly trying banks
and financial organisations without the necessary identifying
information such as account numbers would likely fail,

 Correct. Then move onto the next.
 

and perhaps cause
the police to be contacted.

 And they would do what, exactly?
  

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Cheers, Carlos.