HOW TO SPOT A PHONE SCAM

Yesterday, I received an irate phone call from one of my clients telling me that her father had been scammed and that his bank account had been completely emptied!! ‘My goodness, how did that happen?’ I asked.  My client then told me that all it took was a phone call from the ‘bank’ asking her father to verify his details and his bank account was duly emptied. Lately, I’ve been hearing more and more stories of people from young adults to elderly pensioners falling victim to phone scams. These scams are clever, frightening, and designed to make people act quickly...