Fact Check: PIB has given information by tweeting from its official Twitter handle that the message being sent in the name of State Bank of India is completely fake.
Fact Check: Today all banks are providing all kinds of facilities related to online banking to their customers. Due to this, customers do not have to make rounds of banks for every small task. Many small and big tasks are easily done sitting at home. With the increasing internet usage, the cases of fraud are also increasing. Meanwhile, news of work has come to the fore for the account holders of the country’s largest bank State Bank of India (SBI). A message has been sent to many users about getting the PAN updated by the bank.
Be careful with messages
If you have also received such messages, then you need to be careful. Actually, people committing cyber crime in the name of State Bank are sending messages (PAN Update in SBI Account). It shows people the fear of getting the bank account closed. Later steal their personal details. The government has shared the truth related to this message from its official Twitter account. The viral message states that if SBI customers do not update their PAN card, then their YONO account will be closed today itself. After this a fake link has been given. It has been asked to update.
A #Fake message issued in the name of SBI is asking customers to update their PAN number to avoid their account from getting blocked#PIBFactCheck
▶️Never respond to emails/SMS asking to share your personal or banking details
▶️Report at👇
✉️ report.phishing@sbi.co.in
📞1930 pic.twitter.com/GiehqSrLcg
— PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) August 27, 2022
PIB has fact checked this viral message. He has found that this information is completely bogus. SBI has not sent any such message to its account holders. SBI has told people that the bank does not ask anyone to update their personal information by sending such a link. If any such message is sent to you, then you can lodge a complaint on the email id report.phishing@sbi.co.in. Apart from this, you can also register your complaint by calling the number 1930.
