Major banks are sounding the alarm about a surge in scammers posing as bank employees to steal sensitive information or pressure customers into transferring their own money.

A Maryland man came close to losing $20,000, and the FBI says these attacks are getting more sophisticated with Account Takeover (ATO) fraud schemes. Orhan Suleiman doesn't normally answer phone calls from unfamiliar numbers, but last month, he did.

“The first thing this individual did was say he was from the Bank of America Security and Fraud Group,” Suleiman said. “And then he proceeded to recite two facts.”

He says the caller shared details from two of his bank accounts.

“And this caller mentioned both by quantity and the time the transfers occurred, and then proceeded to tell me that I was about to send or I ha

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