Step Aside "Illiquid" Nigerian Prince: Here Comes The "Exploding Dedit Card" Phishing Scam
Highly-compensated 'bridge loans' for illiquid Nigerian princes are so 21st century.Not even molten Keynes.
The new-new thing in scams is exploding debit cards...
As the letter below shows, the scammer are targeting Barclays customers, claiming that and "URGENT safety recall" has been issued for customers' debit cards because they could explode.
"This is a matter of uppermost emergency as your card could create a pocket fire at any given moment, burning your legs and stomach terribly." The fake letter went on to blame the exploding debt cards on "a fault in the factory process at the bank's debit card factory in Molton Keynes,"...
The last time Milton Keynes rose to the level of conscious thought, pour moi at any rate, was this bit from September 2017:
Milton Keynes is bidding to be the 2023 European Capital of Culture. We should take it seriouslyThe EC said it wasn't going to happen, no offense to M.K. intended, Brexit and all that.
