Don’t. And report them to your bank.
They maybe use Plaid to connect your bank? I still wouldn’t do it though. Fuck Plaid. Fuck handing out creds. Find another way.
I’ve seen this in a few places
Just to be clear, the answer is absolutely NO.
Make sure you email them your mothers maiden name and date of birth too, just to be safe it goes through
Seen the same thing with other third party payment systems in south africa. Run away my dude.
As a fellow saffer, and a person who works with scam victims, I’m curious as to what services asked you to do that? Feel free to pm me.
It’s probably against your bank’s TOS to give your password to a 3rd party. No way this is legit. Run away.
My understanding is that should you disclose your credentials you would generally void any fraud protection the banks may offer.
It probably is. Its for convenience reasons. They pull up your bank page in the background and automatic login and parse the page.
It is incredibly dumb and I would strongly advise against it
Scam
Ask them for their bank login details so you can deposit the money directly into their account.
This is the best
Are you sure this isn’t a scam?
Import duties are a scam to begin with.
That is a scam, they probably send mass texts linked to tracking numbers that have a registered phone number.
It probably isn’t as the banking industry is crazy
Baking network engineer here: Never give out your login details. Not to your mom. Not to your brother. Not to me. Not to a company. Not to a random guy in India. Don’t do it.
Agreed. However, there are services that login on your behalf. It is incredibly dumb but they exist.
Just to be entirely clear, DO NOT GIVE THEM YOUR LOGIN
Partners are the stupidest fuckers on the planet. I won’t name names, but I have sicced my governance team on fucking http (NO S) websites, usage of certificate pinning, public-facing databases! (Protected by a shitty 2000’s-era username+password login interface) transferring credit card numbers in CLEAR TEXT. I swear I’ve seen every possible idiotic move from partners.
Don’t even need an associated list, just a random list of phone numbers. People online shop enough.
I remember one of the funnier scams.
They said they were from USPS, and in order to finish shipping, they needed me to pay the tariff.
It didn’t have anything about me. No login. No address. No tracking number. It just wanted me to hit that pay now button.
But even then, why would I pay a tariff for something I didn’t order?
And this is one of the ways to filter random scams. If a legitimate business or public entity is reaching out to contact you about an issue you need to deal with, they will know some identifying information about you. Especially the ones claiming that there’s a warrant (or will be). If that was the case, they would definitely know your name and other specific details.
That said, there are targeted scams, too, so don’t assume that if someone can tell you your name that they are legit. Ask them for a callback number (don’t call it, ask because they might be dumb enough to give you a number linked to them that you could pass on to investigators), then hang up and call the number you looked up online.
Be careful looking up numbers online as well. There are lots of fake numbers and sites out there. Use previous known good communication as your guide for contacting the specific entity you are trying to contact. If at all possible. Also, smammers seem to have databases of scraped and leaked data so will often pull up your data based on your caller ID or other info you may disclose to them. Be careful out there.
For a while (and still every so often), I received fake texts from delivery companies, but they always referred to me as “There”. “There, we tried to deliver your package…”, “There, your package may be returned if you don’t click this link…”. I was curious what I typed in and where that they recorded my name as “There”.
They didn’t send it just to you. They sent it to millions. If even one person happened to order something internationally and be stupid, it’s already worth it.
Aww but I thought I was special.
I get that once in a while here in Denmark too, only replace USPS with PostNord, sometimes DHL or GLS
The crazy part that the bank uses username+password method for authentication.
That’s fairly common, 2fa w/loc is after password in a lot of cases.
I would be completely astonished if this was legit. If you’ve already filled out the form, change you banking password and contact your bank immediately.
I have some surprising news for you then
By all means, surprise away!
It is probably legit
Super massive red flag there.
Love that Muse song.
🎶 Ooh baby don’t you know I suffer Oh baby when you phished my bank You sent me to a dodgy website Using a convincing link
Ooooooh-ooooh You drained my bank account Ooooooh-ooooh You drained my bank account🎶
Perfect!
Well that’s a scam
Google seems to suggest they’re some sort of fintech company out of South Africa? Either way if that’s their product then I’d run a mile in the other direction, and then another just be sure.
Yep. They’ve been around for years.
Normally you would just give them your card info like any other online pay site like PayPal etc. but I don’t know why they suddenly decided to give everyone at the company a deluxe lobotomy
I saw this shit yesterday when I was trying to buy a weed cart online (still not sure if it’s legal or not. I still hear stories of those moron cops arresting people for “drug possession” i.e. didn’t pay a bribe)
Noped out and just gave the clearnet grey market drug website virtual card info that’s gonna expire in a few hours anyway
Yeah no. Plaid is one thing but giving access to your bank login to pay an invoice is something quite another. If it’s legit they can accept a card payment, or send you to a PayPal invoice.
