Imagine your bank calls you, the number on your screen matches your bank's real number, and the person on the line sounds completely legitimate. Would you trust them? This is exactly what a new phone scam called spoofing is designed to exploit.
Spoofing is a technique where fraudsters disguise their calls to appear as a trusted sender, so they can get access to your personal data.
Until recently, the typical scam involved a fake bank employee asking you directly for your phone banking access codes. This new variant works differently. The scammer actually tells you not to say your password out loud to anyone, for "security reasons", and instructs you to type it directly into your phone's keypad instead. Once you do, the fraudster captures your keystrokes and from that moment on has control of your secret codes.
What makes this scam so dangerous is that it impersonates the real phone number of energy companies, banks, or public institutions, which is what makes it almost impossible to detect just by looking at your screen.
