Hacked Hotel Phones Fueled Bank Phishing Scams
Summary: A phishing campaign targeting customers of several major U.S. banks used SMS lures directing recipients to call hacked phone lines at Holiday Inn locations in Houston, where automated prompts impersonated Bank of America and Key Bank and asked callers to enter their Social Security digits and full card numbers. Fraudsters blasted messages to hundreds of thousands of mobile users in the Houston area over two weeks, and a front desk clerk said the hotel received over 100 complaints from people who got the texts.
Key Takeaway: Numbercop's CEO said two separate Holiday Inns getting hijacked in such a short time points to a larger issue with their telephone system provider, and Cloudmark found SMS bank account phishing in the U.S. more than tripled in September 2014.
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