SBI alert: PIB said that customers should not respond to fake SMS alerts asking for personal and banking information to access their accounts.
SBI alert: Ever since the facilities like digital transactions, net banking, BHIM, UPI started running in the country, people are also falling prey to online frauds. Meanwhile, the Press Information Bureau (PIB), a central organization of the Central Government, has issued an alert for the customers of the country’s largest bank State Bank of India (SBI).
PIB said that customers should not respond to fake SMS alerts asking for personal and banking information to access their accounts. Fraud is sending a fake message to the customers on behalf of SBI. In which it is claimed that your account has been blocked and you are requested to enter your financial and personal information by visiting the URL given in the SMS. In such a situation, if you click on the link, it will take you to a fake website, after which you will become a victim of phishing.
Conspiracy to implicate people with fake messages
In a tweet to alert customers, PIB said, ‘There is a message claiming that your @TheOfficialSBI account has been blocked, #FAKE’. To combat such fraudulent activity, PIB has recently said through a tweet that ‘Do not reply to email/SMS asking you’. If you get any such message, report it immediately at report.phishing@sbi.co.in .
Never share personal details
Every bank in the country definitely alerts its customers that they will not send a message asking you to click on any link. Similarly, no such message has been sent to you from SBI, in which you have to click on the embedded link or there is a process to update KYC. SBI would like to request you to be careful before clicking on such links.
Bank issued alert
SBI had last month alerted its customers through a tweet that in an effort to tackle ongoing bank frauds through SMS, “Such SMS may lead to fraud, and you may lose your savings.” “. Embedded links should not be clicked. When you receive an SMS, check the correct SBI short code. Stay alert and #SafeWithSBI.”
