Sparkasse: Be careful with that mail! There are crooks behind it

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Attention clients savings bank: Another scam appeared!

Cybercriminals are currently targeting customers savings bank Away. With the help of scam emails, they want to get your banking details.

Sparkasse: New Fraudulent Emails Detected – This is How Scammers Want to Get Your Data

In the past few days, the Consumer Advice Center has received frequent reports from bank customers complaining of a new type of phishing email. These emails are said to be from the Institute’s newsletter and contain the subject line ‘Important Information’ or ‘Important Message’.

However, this is not included in the message, but should only be visible via a link. “All of our customers have received important communications. Reply to this message by June 13, 2022.” Below this is a button with a red background that says ‘Show notifications’ with a slight misspelling. If you click on it, you end up on a fake login page. Here comes the dangerous part: once you enter your details there, it goes straight into the hands of the crooks.

Criminals can do with it whatever they want. In any case, you can expect them to withdraw funds or make transfers. You will never see money again.

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Sparkasse: This is what you should do after receiving a phishing email

So you should not interact with the mail at all, but move it directly to the spam folder. In this way, your mail program learns and can classify these messages as spam in the future, such as “chipmentioned.

You can often identify such fraud attempts by any misspellings or lack of a personal address. In this case, customers are treated only as “Sir or Madam”. The messages are signed with “Internet Banking Team…”. (mbo)