The OP tells what kind of new methods fraudsters have been found to be using recently.
OP warns on its pages about the scammers’ new tricks.
According to the bank, customers’ awareness of scams and their vigilance have forced scammers to develop new ways to manipulate and mislead victims.
In its announcement, it lists five more recent tricks that require special vigilance to identify.
1. Recording
The first is a recording that starts playing when the victim answers the scam call. The tape may say, for example, that an attempt has been made to make payments from the customer’s account abroad, and by pressing the dialing number, the call is allegedly connected to the bank. In reality, the call connects to criminals.
2. Confirmation messages
Another sneaky trick is sending “confirmation messages” during a scam call. This is intended to mimic the genuine practices of banks, but in reality, the fact that you receive a text message when someone says so on the phone is not a sign that the caller can be trusted.
3. Identification on the website
As a third matter, the OP warns about the invitation given during the scam call to identify yourself via the link sent to the bank’s website via text message. It reminds you that a real bank will never ask you to enter your bank credentials on any website during a call and always asks you to check the website address carefully.
4. Kindness
According to the OP, the fourth warning sign is increasingly common. Fraudsters have recently emphasized more the freedom of choice and voluntariness of their victims instead of mere threats. The OP says, among other things, that the scammers say on the phone that they don’t want to pressure anyone to do anything, but that the customer makes the decision himself.
This has been done, for example, in security account scams, where the victim has been lured into transferring the money from their own account to “security” – in reality, the money has gone to the criminals’ account.
5. Personal data
The fifth trick, more common than before, is using the victim’s real personal information to increase credibility. They may be obtained from a number inquiry and are not necessarily more difficult to figure out than a home address or a phone number, but they try to convince the victim that the call is from the bank and the information is from the bank’s systems.
The OP emphasizes that it does not share the customer’s personal information on the phone before identification, because the information is subject to bank secrecy.
If you mistakenly gave your information to a fraudster, contact your bank immediately to minimize financial losses. Then report the crime to the police.