The platforms of home bankingsince their first appearances, have captured the attention of cybercriminali and various malicious people.
Even nowadays, a good portion of online crimes and frauds are carried out through fake bank notifications or similar scams. But how can the risk be reduced in this sense? In reality, there are a series of practices which, if implemented, allow these dangers to be substantially reduced.
The first step, from this point of view, is sender verification of an email that appears to come from the bank. If they are present in the message phone numbersyou can check that these correspond with those of the institute.
At the same time, grammatical errors and an overly informal tone of the message should make you understand that something is suspicious. It is good to remember that banks never ask password o PIN via email or similar.
Fake notifications from the bank are now common: avoid mistakes and protect your account
To identify false notifications from the bank it is also useful to analyze the URLs of the outgoing link.
These, in fact, could direct you towards fake websites, created to appear plausible to less attentive users. In this regard, it is best not to focus on the graphics but to analyze the URL of the site, in order to verify whether it is the real one of the bank or not.
In general, then, it is good to pay attention to sense of urgency which cybercriminals try to use to push the victim into making a fatal mistake. Alleged messages that refer to money transfers, therefore, should always be “taken with a pinch of salt”.
As we have already mentioned, in case of doubt it is important to have an official telephone number, jealously kept, to contact in case of doubt. On the purely IT side, then, use a antivirus on your PC can help remedy any attempted cyber attacks.
