What is a digital wallet scam?

Criminals are adding victims’ card details to digital wallets in order to buy goods online. They do this by pretending to be a genuine organisation to get the card details and then persuading the victim to share their one-time passcode. They usually say it’s to stop a fraudulent transaction, when in fact it’s so they can add the card to a digital wallet.

To learn about more scams, take a look at The Little Book of Big Scams.

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