Fordham was trying to transfer the unused balance from a Commonwealth Bank account when he saw a suspicious transaction on the bank teller’s screen.
“When he brought up the screen I saw the words ‘OnlyFans,'” Fordham said.
“Now OF is an adult subscription website, where if you’re a creator, you typically get your gear off and your subscribers pay money to see you with your gear off.
“So I had this embarrassing conversation with the lovely gentlemen behind the counter, where I said ‘Look, can you just go back to that page, I saw the words ‘OnlyFans’ there.”
Fordham said the teller was pretending he hadn’t seen it.
“I’m sure you hear this all the time, but I swear I have not spent any money with Onlyfans,” Fordham said.
The bank worker insisted he had not been targeted by scammers, and that the transaction said showed a charge of $50, that had quickly been reversed.
The amount came out of the travel card’s account, then went back onto the account.
Matt Comyn, Chief Executive of the Commonwealth Bank, said the bank was always working to prevent fraud and hoped the incident hadn’t been too embarrassing for the 2GB host.
Comyn said the attack against Fordham was “garden variety fraud”, and not specifically a scam.
“You as the account holder had no involvement in that transaction, it was undertaken by a third party,” he said.
“That is something that people will target, something that isn’t checked as frequently.”
Common said another new security feature introduced at CBA was its “name check” which could flag if the name and account details you believe you’re paying – don’t match up.
He said it had prevented $400 million in incorrect payments.
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