BDO Unibank advises its clients and the banking public in general not to fall for scammers offering to help them open new accounts to receive spurious offers or prizes from some contest.
“As online scammers remain on the prowl for potential victims, to follow this simple caution: if you didn’t join any contest, you didn’t win anything. Don’t fall for offers that are too good to be true because they most probably are not true,” the bank said.
Scammers are calling accountholders informing them about a prize they allegedly won and encouraging them to open an Online Banking account to redeem it.
These scammers will be offering their help and asking the victim to activate it using a code they will be providing.
However, the Bank bared that this supposed offer to “help” or “assist” accountholders in opening an online banking account is just a scheme of scammers to get direct access to their would-be victims’ bank account.
BDO warns clients that if they have an online banking account, scammers may try to take over their account through email or phone scam by offering higher daily transfer limit, stronger account security, or other enticements.
“They will trick you into allowing a third-party account to be enrolled to your Online Banking account through ATM activation,” the Bank said.
Once this is done, BDO explained that scammers will be able to fully take over the victims’ account and steal their money.
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