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Dirk de Vos

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How a perfectly faked SMS can empty your bank account

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By Dirk de Vos, Patrick Le Roux
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Thabo Magubane (not his real name) had always been careful with money. The finance manager at a logistics company in Midrand, he was the kind of person who reads the fine print and calls the bank on the official number rather than the one in the email. He knew about phishing. One morning in March, he received an SMS that appeared in the same thread as every legitimate message his bank had ever sent him. It carried the bank’s name.
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By Dirk de Vos
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A vishing call is a product, not a conversation. The UK treats banks as accountable. South Africa still treats the customer as an authoriser…
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Inside a vishing call: 41 minutes, R340,000 gone

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By Dirk de Vos, Patrick Le Roux
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Margaret Botha (not her real name), ran a school for 31 years. She was 67, recently retired, making dinner on a Wednesday evening, when her phone rang with her bank’s number. She knew that number; she had called it herself. What she could not have known was that her profile name, ID number, bank, account balance range and recent transaction history had been assembled by a crime syndicate.
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