Sparkasse customers should be careful: criminals send fake emails and are after customer data!
The email, which supposedly comes from the Sparkasse, claims that the software has been adapted and optimized, which is why the profile needs to be updated. There are now “numerous improvements when shopping” (which is a little confusing, because who shops on the Sparkasse account management page?).
This is what the email looks like:

The email in full:
Dear Customer,
We would like to inform you that all planned measures regarding the adaptation and optimization of our software have been completed. You can look forward to numerous improvements when shopping.
Update profile now
In order to be able to fully use all functions of the software, we ask you to keep your data up to date. Because of outdated data, there are always problems communicating with our servers.
The impersonal salutation alone should make you suspicious, but otherwise the email looks very unsuspicious and can therefore lead many inexperienced users to trust the email.
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When we click on the link to update the profile, Kaspersky warns us:

Without online protection, you end up on a page that looks deceptively similar to the Sparkasse homepage.
That's why as a user you should always pay attention to the URL that you see at the top of the browser, because this is the clearest sign that you are not on the real Sparkasse homepage!

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Conclusion
The non-Sparkasse customers will not mind the email: they will simply delete the email with a tired smile. However, there are also many real customers who have received the email and click on the link without knowing it.
If you have entered your data on such a fake site, please immediately to prevent criminals from debiting money!
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