The email scam has been around for some time but has seen a surge in recent months due to more internet and mobile banking uptake
The email scam has been around for some time but has seen a surge in recent months due to more internet and mobile banking uptake. The scam entails an email with a subject line: “Please clean up your bank account” or “Your bank account is being blocked.”
The body of the email lists all accounts held by the recipient and states that they must update their information before a certain date, or it will be closed permanently. The scammers ask for full details about your bank accounts, including personal information, credit card numbers and etc.
They will only trick you into giving out personal details so they can steal from you.
How They Execute the Scam
The scam can start with an unsolicited email. You get an email from a supposed business or government organization asking for your personal information. It might offer to sell you something that sounds legitimate, or it can pose as your bank and claim there has been suspicious activity in your account or that it needs to be “cleaned” before you can use it again.
You click on one of these links, perhaps thinking they’re part of the company’s official website. When you enter your information and submit a form, what happens next is something very different than expected: Your bank account gets hacked and emptied.
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