ICICI Bank Warns Customer of SMS Fraud: With increasing digitization, cases of online fraud have also increased. Nowadays, cases of banking fraud have increased rapidly. Many cyber thugs are cheating people through SMS. Due to this, the country’s largest private sector bank ICICI Bank has issued an alert.
Through this, the bank has issued a warning to its customers for SMS fraud. Fraudsters are trapping users in their net by sending fake messages through SMS. For this, they steal all the important data of your phone by sending fake links. All this data is available to the hacker and he misuses it. To protect yourself from such fraud, ICICI Bank has issued a warning. Know about this.
The bank gave this advice to the customers
ICICI Bank has advised its customers that nowadays the number of frauds through SMS has increased rapidly. In such a situation, if you receive any message in the name of the bank, then first of all check the authenticity of that message. For this, you can use official channels like the official website. Keep in mind to avoid calling the numbers given in the message.
The bank gave this warning
ICICI Bank has alerted users that if someone asks you for OTP, then do not give it to them at all. No company or bank asks you for OTP. Along with this, report such calls immediately by calling the National Cyber Crime website cybercrime.gov.in or 1930. Keep in mind that the bank does not share information like OTP, PIN or password with any customer at all.
Also keep these things in mind
ICICI Bank has told some such tricks, through which you can identify any fraud. Know about this.
1. The bank has said that fraudsters always call or send messages from unknown numbers and try to show it as that of the bank. This makes the users think that these numbers are of the real bank.
2. Through SMS, users are asked to take immediate action or else they are threatened with financial loss. It talks about deducting money from the user’s account or suspending the account.
3. To steal bank details, hackers can ask you to click on a link, download an app or call a number.
4. To identify fake messages, read them carefully. Often there is a spelling mistake in fake messages. You can identify a wrong message by recognizing this.