Beware of Fraudsters Posing as Bank of Latvia Employees – Bank Warns Public

The Bank of Latvia is warning about fraudsters calling random Latvian residents. They pretend to be employees of the Bank of Latvia or as if they were on behalf of the central bank, providing false information and ordering various actions, eg.

• personal data name;
• payment card or authentication data;
• withdrawal of cooperation with a financial institution;
• offering to recover lost money,
• open website addresses on the Internet mentioned by the caller;
• perform actions according to the instructions.

Latvijas Banka invites you in such situations do not take actionwithout providing information and end the conversation immediately!

pay attention

Important information regarding financial inspection authorities:

• workers unknown for clients of financial institutions. This only happens in situations where clients of financial institutions have spoken to those institutions individually to find out a question they are interested in, and an agreement has been reached about another telephone conversation;
• these institutions ever don’t ask for a name card and internet banking information, he does not give advice terminate cooperation with a financial institution or it does not offer to recover lost money;
• Information about it decisions made by these institutions and activities that affect the interests of clients, these institutions published on their websites, this information is publicly available. Institutions do not personally tell financial institution clients about this by calling them on the phone.

Current methods of fraudsters

In order not to become a victim of fraudsters, the Bank of Latvia asks you to be vigilant, to critically evaluate the information provided by suspicious callers and not to cooperate under any circumstances . We invite you to educate yourself about fraud techniques and how to avoid falling into the trap of fraudsters Naudaskola.lv.

We invite you to report cases of fraud to the State Police!

Make sure member has permission

The Bank of Latvia also invites cooperation only with licensed financial market participants who have the right to provide financial services in Latvia.

A list of Latvian financial market participants is available on the Bank of Latvia website in the section Market participants.