Fraudulent Telemarketers Snatching Bank Account Numbers,
National Fraud Information Center Stats Show
In 2001 consumers paid for fraudulent telemarketing offers more frequently with bank
debits than any other payment method, according to statistics released by the National Consumers League’s
National Fraud Information Center (NFIC). Bank debits are situations in which fraudulent telemarketers obtain
consumers’ bank account numbers either by luring consumers into providing them or getting them from another
source. Bank debits are particularly high in certain categories among the top ten telemarketing frauds in 2001: 62
percent of consumers paid for bogus credit card offers with bank debits; 50 percent gave out their bank numbers in
the increasingly popular age-old Nigerian money offer scam; and 26 percent had funds withdrawn from their bank
accounts for buyers clubs they never agreed to purchase. Read
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