An investigation took place
Banks have been in the headlines this week as HSBC announced it was to close 114 banks across the country, including one in Nottinghamshire. Now, an investigation has suggested HSBC, Lloyds Bank, Santander, TSB, Nationwide Building Society and Virgin Money may be leaving customers vulnerable to fraudulent spoofing attempts.
Reporting on the findings, Liverpool Echo said that Ofcom recently strengthened its rules and guidance to require telephone networks involved in transmitting calls - either to mobiles or landlines - to identify and block spoofed calls, where technically feasible, making it harder for scammers to use spoofed numbers.
"This initiative prevents criminals impersonating banks by protecting bank inbound phone numbers from being used to make outbound calls and socially engineer or scam bank customers. It is important to remember that anyone can be caught out by these criminals and that you should always stay alert. Lloyds Bank said: "Banks can't solve the problem of number spoofing alone and telecoms firms need to speedily address the technical gaps in their systems that allow this type of fraud to happen, even with Do Not Originate lists in place."
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