Today, a lady called me claiming to be a staff of CBN. She said there was a total system upgrade of accounts by commercial banks, which CBN had mandated for all deposit money banks. She claimed she was calling on behalf of Access Bank and told me that my account had some issues that needed to be fixed.

She then said an OTP had been sent to my phone number linked to my account, and I actually saw a few digits appear. I was about to respond when my brother quickly warned me to ignore her; she was only trying to scam me.

My question is this: if it wasn’t a bank staff who revealed my information to them, how did they know I have an account with Access Bank? She even called my full name and recited some account details. It still amazes me till now. How did she get my bank details?