Mobile phone users have been warned to be on their guard against a new trick scammers are using to trick people out of their money or personal data.
The clever con came to light after a worried man contacted consumer group Which? after being targeted by a sustained campaign of scam texts and phone calls, seemingly from Lloyds Bank.
The man noticed a strange text appearing at the end of a chain of legitimate messages from Lloyds Bank. The text claimed he would receive a message asking him to confirm activity on his account and another text soon after from a different number claimed a £110 transaction on Amazon had been declined by his bank. The text said the customer needed to confirm that it was he who had attempted the Amazon payment, or Lloyds would ‘decline future card payments’.
