Fraudsters use fake savings bank emails for attacks. Two current warnings show perfidious stitches.
Dortmund-The Sparkasse raises the alarm: criminals currently send fake emails on behalf of the bank. Two particularly perfidious fraud stitches are currently threatening Sparkassen customers. Those who fall in the tricks risk the complete loss of their savings.
Sparkasse is currently warning of double danger: Customers are threatened with empty account
Table of Contents
- Sparkasse is currently warning of double danger: Customers are threatened with empty account
- Wave of fraud at the Sparkasse: Mails look deceptively real
- Current savings bank warning: Never pass on TAN codes
- Bank warning: 7 Recognize typical features of fraudulent emails immediately
- Sparkassen customers have to be careful: fraudsters are getting better and better
- Phishing costs millions of bank customers: Federal Office publishes basic rules
- Appeal to all Sparkassen customers-can prevent further damage
The first fraudulent bank email uses the pretext of alleged messages in the electronic mailbox. The fake emails wear subject lines such as “Important new messages are waiting for you in your digital mailbox” or “New document in your electronic mailbox“.
The fraudsters rely on time pressure and threats: recipients should act within 24 hours. Otherwise there is supposedly threats a account lock. A typical text is: “If there is no feedback within the next 24 hours, there may be a temporary restriction of the account access for protection reasons“.
The Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe’s computer emergency team warns of these emails. The messages contain links to fake websites on which criminal online banking access data and credit card information (further consumer warnings at Ruhr24).
Wave of fraud at the Sparkasse: Mails look deceptively real
At the same time, fake emails circulate under the pretext of a “Customer data updates“. These messages work particularly professionally and use the corporate design of the Sparkasse. Subject lines are, for example,“Message: S-Pushan authorization runs ”.
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The criminals pretend that a “planned update of the customer database“To carry out and request to confirm the contact details. Here, too, artificial time pressure is set up: the update is only available up to a certain date.
Current savings bank warning: Never pass on TAN codes
The Sparkasse warns: Anyone who has already entered data on the phishing sites must expect fraudulent phone calls. These could be run on behalf of the Sparkasse – even with the fake telephone number of your own savings bank.
The fraudsters are targeting the Tan Codes. They want to have a transfer confirmed with them. The Sparkasse emphasizes: Such orders should only be released if they have been initiated beforehand.
Sparkassen customers have to be careful: fraudsters are getting better and better
The Federal Office for Information Technology provides information that phishing emails mostly noticed through impersonal salutations or poor German until a few years ago, but criminals are now being more professional. Typical warning signals for phishing emails according to BSI:
- Urgent need for action is specified
- Threats of account lock or data loss
- Request for entering confidential data such as PIN or credit card number
- Emails contain suspicious links or forms
- Impersonal salutation despite the supposedly personal message
Phishing costs millions of bank customers: Federal Office publishes basic rules
The Federal Office of Information Technology estimates the economic damage caused by phishing attacks in Germany on a double-digit million amount per year. For those affected, the consequences can be devastating: If you enter your credit card data on fake websites, you enable the perpetrators to make extensive shopping tours at strangers.
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Basic rules to protect against phishing according to BSI:
- Never enter personal data via email links
- Check the sender addresses closely-often there are other email addresses behind it
- For suspicious messages, ask directly to the Sparkasse
- Check links in emails before clicking-move the mouse pointer via the link, the real goal shows
- Distrust in unexpected TAN queries without prior transaction
Anyone who has already fallen on a phishing email should act immediately:
- Immediately contact the Sparkasse and have online banking blocked
- Block credit cards immediately for suspicious activities
- Change passwords for all online accounts
- Refeat criminal complaint with the local police
- Monitored account movements closely 6
Appeal to all Sparkassen customers-can prevent further damage
The Sparkasse emphasizes: Real messages from the bank never request to enter access data via email links. In case of doubt, customers should always choose the direct route via the official website or the phone.
Sparkassen customers should forward suspicious emails directly to warnung@sparkasse.de. This can also help other customers: The Sparkassen-Finanzgruppe’s computer emergency team can then publish a corresponding warning.
