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They won't have.Moseleygirl said:Thanks. The verification code should have come from my bank, not Apple (who aren't involved in this). I just want to know how the scammer could have got that code, which was sent to my phoneLife in the slow lane0 -
Not your email - if they were able to access the bank somehow e.g. a fake bank login that captured your details, they could change the email to send the verification to so you wouldn't see it. It's worth setting up apps with alerts for banking, I get confirmation messages when I have setup something like adding a card to google payMoseleygirl said:My bank said Apple Pay has been set up but the bank cancelled it and my card.
Re Nasqueron's message- my email wasn't involved. Note did I do anything on a bank app. I clicked on a link in a text message and poor info on online in a browser. That's why I'm concerned how they got access to a verification code sent by text to my phone. Tho it had my bank name on the text, it didn't come from my bank. I just want to know if there's any way a scammer can access texts in my phone to get a verification code, which appears to have been used to activate Apple PaySam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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Possible sim swap fraud?born_again said:
They won't have.Moseleygirl said:Thanks. The verification code should have come from my bank, not Apple (who aren't involved in this). I just want to know how the scammer could have got that code, which was sent to my phoneSam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socioeconomic Unfairness:
People are rich because they spend less money. A poor man buys $10 boots that last a season or two before he's walking in wet shoes and has to buy another pair. A rich man buys $50 boots that are made better and give him 10 years of dry feet. The poor man has spent $100 over those 10 years and still has wet feet.
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Op would not get the notification if it came via text.Nasqueron said:
Possible sim swap fraud?born_again said:
They won't have.Moseleygirl said:Thanks. The verification code should have come from my bank, not Apple (who aren't involved in this). I just want to know how the scammer could have got that code, which was sent to my phoneLife in the slow lane0
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