Hired on Telegram — Criminals Recruit the Bank's Own Front Line — severe-but-plausible scenario — ITOL

Vector: People & Insider · Severity: severe

A criminal broker recruits the bank's own staff on Telegram: a universal banker, two agents at the outsourced contact-center vendor and a fraud-operations analyst. Each is paid per task. The tasks are the bank's own controls: look up high-balance customers, link outside accounts, reset credentials, release fraud holds. Account takeovers run through the bank's hands for eight weeks. Then the crew extorts the bank with a screen recording of its own servicing console.