One Saturday, Aaron Godsi was observing Shabbat – Judaism’s weekly day of rest – and was avoiding operating any electrical devices entirely.
To his horror, the next day, when he looked at his phone, he could physically see his bank accounts being drained – with endless notifications of purchases that had been made.
He could see things being purchased on Deliveroo and Uber Eats, and could even see a pair of AirPods being ordered and delivered.
In that 25 hours, he had been kicked out of my email, his phone and all of his multiple banks and card providers. Fraudsters had taken control of everything, and he couldn’t even verify himself.
Aaron, 27, who lives in north west London and runs a marketing agency, said he had never felt “so helpless.”
