LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The Little Rock FBI office is cautioning that hackers have developed a new scam to steal money from unsuspecting victims.
Called the “Phantom Hacker” scam, it works like this, according to agents: A scammer will call an intended victim while impersonating someone from a technology, banking or government agency. The scammer then persuades the victim that their foreign hackers have infiltrated their financial accounts and to move their money to a purported U.S. government account to keep it safe.
The victims transfer the money, which places it in an account under the full control of the scammers.
The full article is available at ozarksfirst.com.
(Story by Alex Kienlen, ozarksfirst.com)
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