Online Payment Fraud: EPFO Fraud has alerted the PF account holder. Be sure to keep these things in mind otherwise your PF account may become empty (PF Account Zero).
EPFO: Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) has issued an alert to all account holders. EPFO has asked all its members that no account holder should share the information related to the account on social media even by mistake. Due to this, account holders can become victims of big frauds. If the information about the EPF account is in the hands of fraudsters, then they can steal money from your account.
What did EPFO say?
Account can be completely emptied. Such frauds are often seen in people leaving one job and joining elsewhere. In such a situation, if these people get any phishing call or message and personal information is asked from them, then they should file a police complaint against them.
Phishing online fraud
People’s hard earned money is stored in the PF account, which people deposit for retirement expenses or for some important work. Nowadays, in the era of online fraud, even the fraudsters know very well that here they will get a big amount in one stroke, so they attack the account through phishing attack. Actually, phishing is part of online fraud in which the depositor is deceived, they are asked for the necessary information related to the account and then the account is cleared.
