I received $1000 and was asked to send it back. How was this scam meant to work?
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Possible Australianism - netbank = a website + app by which an Aussie can do their banking, including transferring money to other people.
A while ago, I ended up with $1000 transferred into my account, which in the description looked like a netbank transfer, not like a cheque, cash deposit etc, and which looked like it had already cleared and landed in my account. Usually when something is still working through the bank's system it displays as 'pending', but did not in this case.
I received a phone call from someone, saying that they had accidentally typed in the wrong account number, and wanting me to send them the same amount of money back via netbank.
