The National Police has alerted networks of a scam that impersonates banks, such as Banco Santander, with the intention of stealing funds from customer accounts. As reported on the official Twitter channel of the authority,
The fraudulent message is sent with the header "Your card is temporarily suspended." In the body of the message it is reported that it has been "illegally used" without the owner's permission. Next, you are asked to log in to a supposedly secure portal to protect yourself from fraud. The user is urged to do so urgently under threat of indefinite suspension of the card.
These messages meet all the signs that show that it is a case of phishing, an attempt to steal data to empty bank accounts through email, explains the National Police. It warns that there is a problem with the card, encourages you to click on a suspicious link, gives a sense of urgency and contains misspellings. "Don't bite," he warns.
In recent times, the sending of fraudulent SMS that try to impersonate Santander, as is the case with other banks, has also been detected. In them, foreign logins or account blockages are reported with a link to resolve the incident that does not belong to the bank, it is collected on the bank's Twitter.
To avoid falling into the trap, from the Internet Security Office (OSI), it is recommended "to be cautious in emails that appear to be from banking entities with messages that you did not expect, that are alarmist or strange". "Be suspicious if there are grammatical errors," he stresses, if they address an "esteemed client" or "dear friend" anonymously, if they use generic mail services -Gmail, Outlook- instead of corporate address domains, if they ask for bank details and personal...
