![]() ![]() ![]() "I would never photograph my card for anybody. Ms Leahy said it was only when they asked for a photo of the card that she knew it was a scam. ![]() So that really convinced me of what was going wrong." Well obviously if you haven't got your phone, you can't verify. If you haven't got your phone, and the bank sends you the verification text or email. "The other thing that got me though, was when they said that they couldn't make the payment because they couldn't get the notification to the phone. So I believed it at the start.Įveryone has broken a phone at some stage in their life, she said, so it was also believable for one of her children to message her from a friend's phone.Ī message about bank verification was something else that made it believable to her. That's what really scared me because they could have tried mum or mummy or ma or whatever.īut my kids all call me 'mam'. "It got me straight away using the word 'mam'. She originally opened the message just to check who it was, saying it could have been a message from a number she had previously rang and forget to save. Ms Leahy said she has four adult children and they all call her "mam". She said that the use of the term "mam" in the messages was something that threw her and made it more believable. ![]()
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