And as you heard from the COMPOL, the trouble starts when customers click on emails that look like legitimate correspondence from their bank.
It's much like what we heard from FIU Director Kent Clare on Friday when he advised the public on how to protect themselves by cautioning against the same.
Cherisse Halsall:
"What is your advice to customers to avoid a situation like this."
Kent Clare, Director, FIU
"Um, at this point I will. Tell you the most obvious one is this,, these banks won't ask you to be clicking things, often times and as a matter of fact if you have had interactions legit with the let's see your amazon account or PayPal or so on and they might give you an advice and they say if this is not you just ignore it and of course you can go to the legitimate site, through the not through an app or something like that but directly to the site using your credentials and you can know whether or not this came from the company indeed. So, I would advise if your clicking on anything that is hardly a way that any bank will be using to get you to fulfill your obligations so the clicking thing please stay away from it."
