State Bank of India has issued a warning to its users about things that they must never do or else they may lose their hard-earned money.
India's largest public sector bank - SBI - has issued a warning to its users about things that they must never do or else they may lose their hard-earned money. Account holders must beware of fraudulent messages that are being sent by cybercriminals to collect sensitive information about bank account holders, the State Bank of India warned. SBI has alerted its customers to be vigilant and not fall into the trap.
1. Cyber criminals sending fraudulent messages
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SBI has tweeted on its official Twitter handle regarding the same. "We have come across some media reports that cyber criminals are sending fraudulent messages to our customers in the name of SBI to lure them to collect reward points by clicking on a fake link and are thus fraudulently collecting customer's sensitive information," SBI tweet said.
2. SBI's advice to its customers
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"We advise all our customers not to share sensitive information such as Card/Pin/OTP/CVV/password with anyone. Please do not click on link received through any email/sms or open attachments/emails from unknown senders. We reiterate that SBI never asks for your sensitive details over phone, sms or email," the SBI tweet further said.
3. What is a phishing attack?
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The SBI has been alerting its customers from time-to-time about such messages, frauds or online attacks. It had recently alerted its customers about phishing attacks. 'Phishing' is a common form of Internet piracy. It is deployed to steal confidential financial information like bank account numbers, net banking passwords, credit card numbers, personal identity details etc.
Later the perpetrators may use the information for siphoning money from the victim's account or run up bills on victim's credit cards. In the worst case, one could also become the victim of identity theft.
4. How to stop phishing attack?
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Ensure that the URL of the login page starts with the text 'https://' and is not 'http://'. The 's' stands for 'secured' and indicates that the web page uses encryption.
5. Never provide confidential information
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Always remember that information like password, PIN, TIN, etc are strictly confidential and are not known even to employees/service personnel of the Bank. You should therefore, never divulge such information even if asked for.
