Cory Doctorow gets scammed
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I was tricked by a phone-phisher pretending to be from my bank, and he convinced me to hand over my credit-card number, then did $8,000+ worth of fraud with it before I figured out what happened.
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Adding multiple factors to authentication just adds another step to the scam, it doesn't make it impossible by any means.
For BankID it somewhat does, because only registered services can make the request - so they'd need to register a scam service and then use that. Which also makes it an easier job for anti-fraud police.
So it'd be a lot more complicated.
Like obviously at a certain point if someone is willing to do everything they can - then they will be scammed, see this for example: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-67208755
But the more steps there are, the higher the chance the person realises it is a scam.
I'm not an expert on digital banking, but this sounds like a no-brainer... Aside from marginally increasing compliance costs, why would this not just be the norm everywhere?
I mean... It was rhetorical. I know why.
It kind of is the norm.
Just a few countries like the US are really backward in terms of accessible banking - mainly due to having no federal ID, residence registration, etc. too on top of outdated bureaucracy.
"A chain is only as strong as its weakest link" - We are the weakest link in any security chain, and always will be. Social engineering is one hell of a drug.
It doesn’t matter how many locks you have if you give the scammers the keys. And so many people give up the keys