Banking / Finance News
Source: PCWorld
Complete item: http://www.pcworld.com/article/163741/forget_computers_phone_crime_is_worrying_banks.html

Description:
Computer fraud may be a big problem for banks today, but the telephone is becoming a critical tool for fraudsters, bank executives say.

In addition to calling customers about suspicious transactions, banks use SMS (Short Message Service) to request that customers contact them. So, fraudsters have begun using a variety of techniques to try to trick the banks into thinking they're communicating with legitimate customers via the telephone. "Call-center authentication is, to me, the biggest pain point right now," said Stan Szwalbenest, remote channel risk director with JP Morgan Chase, speaking at the RSA conference in San Francisco this week.

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