Hackers Scams Woman Zelle for $23,000 in 2021. Holidays Pay Application be Safe. Cybersecurity

Hackers Scams Woman Zelle for $23,000 in 2021. Holidays Pay Application be Safe. The trouble started when Lisa Mae Osborn got an unexpected text message warning, “J.P. Morgan Chase Bank Alert: Did you attempt a Zelle payment for the amount of $5,000?”
The Portland woman had received similar looking fraud warnings before but then her phone rang and the number showed Chase bank. Osborn answered, thinking someone from the bank was calling to help. What she didn’t know at the time is that it wasn’t Chase.
Instead, it was a scammer who claimed to be a bank representative named “Charles.” The man on the other end of the line provided Osborn’s account information to make his story more believable. It’s not clear where the scammer got all these details.
“They asked me if they could verify this was my home address and they read me my home address and they asked me if these were the last four digits of my social security number and they read me those numbers,” explained Osborn.
he crook suggested the bank could reverse the fraudulent charges by using a mobile banking app called Zelle.