How often have you actually received a real SMS from your bank informing you that something has changed in your account or your online banking?
Probably never, because banks don't usually communicate with their customers via text messages. Nevertheless, criminals still try to trap insecure users with fake SMS, like in this example:
“ Customer information: Your access has been updated, please update your account ” is the text of the SMS, followed by a URL that has the name of the bank at some point, in the current case “Bank99”.
Such Internet addresses change very frequently and often only exist for a few days before the fraudsters send the SMS again with a new URL.
But the Internet address in the SMS is not the “final destination,” because from there the victims are always redirected to another site where the fraud then takes place. In the current case, you even had to confirm that you were a human, but you can already tell from the URL that it is not on the real Bank99 website.
You then come to a replica of the Bank99 login page, which not only asks for your login details, but also your full personal details and credit card details - which are then used entirely by the criminals, who then have full access to the account!
Conclusion
If your bank wants something from you, they will usually contact you in writing, but probably not via SMS. To check whether something has actually changed, you don't have to click on a link in an SMS or email: just go to the bank's homepage and log in directly.
However, if you have entered your data on a replica page, you should inform your bank immediately so that the account can be blocked from unauthorized access!
Also interesting:
The job sounds simple: As a “securities assistant” you get money into the account and simply transfer it further.
But you're actually helping criminals - and you're also becoming a perpetrator yourself. – Beware of a supposedly lucrative job offer as a “securities assistant”
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