When all banking was done at the offices of these entities and at ATMs, users had to be careful not to be robbed when withdrawing cash or have their wallets stolen. Currently, digital transactions still outnumber physical transactions, which means that attacks also happen online.
One of the most common is phishing, which consists of attempting to impersonate a person or identity and attempting to ignore a customer of the same person in an attempt to steal data or money. This is very common in large companies, such as telecommunications, electricity suppliers and especially banks.
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The latter is so because Bank details are usually the most lucrative for cybercriminals, providing access not only to personal information, but also to the savings of said customers. This is exactly what is happening in recent days with the ING bank, whose identity has been stolen, even if it is not the first bank to suffer an attack of this type.
A fake SMS that seeks to steal information
In Europe, many people receive SMS messages supposedly from ING informing of certain movements in the accounts. Some indicate that there is a pending payment, others indicate that there is a transfer of a large amount that was recently received.
All posts They include a link that has been designed for that bank’s customers to click on and will take them to a web page that simulates that of the bank.. There they are asked to enter their username and password. In this way, through a fake website they obtain user data.
Fatal text message pretending to be ING
Obviously, many people who receive this SMS do not have an account in this bank, which shows that it is a scam. Criminals simply send out waves of text messages, hoping that many of them will reach bank customers, and they won’t be careful enough to hesitate.
Never open an SMS link
Banks in Europe do not send messages of this type just to avoid situations like this. A bank will never ask us to enter the account profile from a link in an SMS or email, and will always invite you to use the official application or, in any case, the official website of the entity . Both can be found in the mobile application stores of different mobile manufacturers and in major Internet search engines.
What you should do if you receive one of these SMS is to delete it, without opening the linkas indicates ING itself on its social networks. And if possible, it is better to mark it as SPAM and block it so that Apple and Google servers can improve their filter for this type of messages.
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