Allowing websites to disable client devtools to stop bank scammers?

  1. They pretend to be support technicians and remote into the victims computer.

  2. They pretend to approve some type of refund to the victims bank account.

  3. They edit the html in the victims browser and change the most recent transaction to look like a refund from the scammer.

  4. They can see the victims balance. So if the victim has 25,000 dollars they will edit the transaction to some amount like 20,000.

  5. Then they trick the victim into thinking they just accidentally were overpaid by the scammer by thousands of dollars.

  6. The scammer edits the victims balance by adding the 20,000 and now they demand that money back.

This is a very rampant scam and older people are ripped off everyday. Banking websites don’t really have a way to prevent this unless browsers agree to allow a website to somehow disable devtools or specifically html editing.