I think it's more along the lines of requesting for your bank account number and an advance fee (usually for some administrative detail or another) and gradually increasing the amount requested... hence advanced fee fraud. I doubt anyone can use your account number to drain your account, as account numbers are usually given for other parties to transfer amounts around... minimally they would need another piece of information (i.e: pin).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_fraud Mike Message: 1 Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:09:00 +0200 From: Alex Kornilov <[email protected]> Subject: [Pauldotcom] How does Advanced Fee Fraud works (Nigerian Scam) To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi I read this in CASP study guide: http://i.imgur.com/TOgOu.png It means if somebody knows my account number (in Europe IBAN) he can get money? How is this possible? regards Alex ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom End of Pauldotcom Digest, Vol 43, Issue 1 ***************************************** _______________________________________________ Pauldotcom mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pauldotcom.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pauldotcom Main Web Site: http://pauldotcom.com
