We have been alerted that there is an increase in fraudulent debit card activity resulting from cardholders being scammed into giving personal information to fraudsters. The most recent fraud trend involves fraudsters calling cardholders and posing as a “Fraud Representative” to gain access to one-time passcodes and other personal information used to load card details into mobile wallets. 

How the Fraud Trend Works:

• • A client receives a phone call from what appears to be a legitimate phone number (sometimes even spoofed as a known call center number)
  • The fraudster poses as a legitimate fraud analytics representative
  • The fraudster states they either have sent or will be sending the end client a one-time password (OTP) and requests the client to read it back to them
  • The fraudster is then able to use the OTP to provision the card number to a mobile wallet
    
    

Recommended actions for debit card users:

If you have any questions, please contact us.  

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