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A good friend very recently ended up on a phone through a pop up theoretically to his bank and it almost cost him his entire superannuation payout which had only been finalised a couple of days before. It was just that while online chatting or texting he noticed an alert from his bank which the scammers were quick to delete but not before it set his alarms off.
He was one of the VERY lucky few and didn't lose anything but his withdrawal limit had been changed and they were planning on taking the lot but he got suspicious, hung up and phoned the bank.
Again, he was VERY lucky.
Though he just retired after being a high school science teacher for over 30 years he's far from a dummy yet he fell for some pop-up, his computer had an issue with his bank and he had to phone Microsoft via the provided number. As I've explained, Microsoft don't have ANYTHING to do with his banking and really don't care.
He was caught out because of the confusion trying to get his super all finalised over the 2 weeks prior and somewhat baffled by everything.
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