An unprecedented wave of online bank fraud is hitting Britain
I had a long argument with HSBC UK Security a few years ago where I was completely unable to get the to understand they were putting their customers at risk.<p>In the event that something looked strange on your account the &#x27;HSBC Fraud Department&#x27; would text you and ask them to call you on a phone number.<p>A phone number that didn&#x27;t appear anywhere on their website. &quot;We don&#x27;t want it public.<p>OK,well at least put it on a non-linked page so that if you SEARCH for the number on the website search tool, it returns a page with the number on &quot;Well, I suppose that&#x27;s an idea I could pass on&quot;.<p>Even when I said to them &quot;You are training your customers to accept potentially fraudulent text messages&quot; they didn&#x27;t get it.<p>Infuriating.