Beware of this type of online scam: it is easy to fall for it and we risk giving our data to the wrong people
On several occasions we have had to emphasize how technology makes everything easier but also dangerous. Indeed hackers and scammers they put our safety to the test every day, specifically that of ours money. It takes very little to see our cash or credit disappear from the smartphone. An example? An SMS that has made thousands of euros disappear.
At the expense of companies or credit institutions, behind which these scams are hidden. At the moment, a really dangerous one is underway, in the name of Intesa Sanpaolo, BNL ed Unicredit. Let’s see what it consists of.
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Online scams on behalf of banks: how to behave
Often the complex mechanism uses SMS or emails that pretend a danger or aim to intrigue the customer of real banks. The disturbing message on behalf of Poste Italiane it is proof of this, and it is absolutely not to be opened. What is happening, however, is very dangerous because the most daring scammers have even copied the pages of our home banking, in order to be able to steal our data even more easily.
As you can imagine, in this email we are asked to click on a link, to unlock our account. And that’s where, as usual, the bad intentions of those who send us that email come into play. By clicking, the customer is redirected to a page, which looks just like that of his bank. Nothing more false.
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The home page is faithfully reproduced, but the unsuspecting account holder ended up in a rigged page. Only the best are able to notice that some details are different from those of the real bank page, but many continue to believe it and move on. For this you must always pay attention to these things, before filling in any fields. In fact, since banks never send such messages, it would be better every time, to report and delete the email. If the bank really had something to let us know urgently, it would not contact us by e-mail anyway.
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