Ben Fordham targeted by OnlyFans bank fraud

Radio host Ben Fordham has issued a warning after one of his bank accounts was targeted by an unusual form of fraud.

Fordham was trying to transfer the unused balance from a Commonwealth Bank travel card 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 on his 2GB program this morning.

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"Now OnlyFans is an adult subscription website where, essentially, 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 gentleman 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 the adult subscription site's name.

"I'm sure you hear this all the time, but I swear I have not spent any money with OnlyFans," Fordham said he told the teller.

A series of $50 transactions had been made on the account and subsequently reversed.

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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 another third party," he said.

"That is something that people will target, something that isn't checked as frequently."

Comyn said another new security feature introduced at CBA was its "name check", which could flag if the name and account details of a payment don't match up.

He said it had prevented more than $400 million in incorrect payments.