PERSONAL FINANCE
State Bank of India (SBI) is helping its customers fight and report phishing scams.
Phishing has become one of the most infamous ways to cheat people of their money. State Bank of India (SBI), the country's largest public sector bank, has issued an alert for customers. Customers need to be careful amidst increasing fraud incidents. SBI has warned its customers against potential threats and has also listed some of the most prevalent phishing scams in the country.
State Bank of India (SBI) is helping its customers fight and report about phishing scams. "Let's fight phishing together! We need to get one step ahead of cyber-criminals by knowing how they operate," SBI tweeted.
What is Phishing?
'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 the victim's credit cards. In the worst case, one could also become the victim of identity theft.
"Phishing can happen over a phone, email, over social media, matrimonial portals etc with various approaches and strategies," the SBI has warned on its official Twitter handle.
Let's fight phishing together!
— State Bank of India (@TheOfficialSBI) May 11, 2021
We need to get one step ahead of cybercriminals by knowing how they operate.
Here are the most common phishing scams in India.
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Most common phishing scams in India:
The bank recommends its customers to report these to the local police authorities or register complaint at https://cybercrime.gov.in.
Useful tips to prevent phishing attacks
1) 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.
2) The address or status bar displays the padlock symbol. Click the padlock to view and verify the security certificate.
3) The address bar turns green indicating that the site is secured with an SSL Certificate that meets the Extended Validation Standard. (SSL is compatible for IE 7.0 and above, Mozilla Firefox 3.1 and above, Opera 9.5 and above, Safari 3.5 and above, Google Chrome).
4) 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.
SBI or any of its representatives never sends email/SMS or calls over the phone to get customers' personal information, password or one-time SMS (high security) password.
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