“Na NBP” is another phishing and spoofing campaign, i.e. impersonating a well-known company or institution in a telephone conversation. Criminals try to gain the trust of potential victims by posing as employees of the Polish central bank. When they finally succeed, they try to extort data and money from the interlocutors.
Bankruptcy fraud. They pose as a central bank. They want to “help” with transfers
The National Bank of Poland warns about further attempts to extort money, this time using the image of the NBP. Cybercriminals are supposed to call Poles, claiming to be bank employees and offer help in mundane matters related to maintaining a bank account, e.g. verification of transfers. NBP does not reveal the specific scheme of criminals’ operation, but we can guess that in order for “help” to be possible, they ask for sensitive information, e.g. bank login details, and even SMS passwords.
In connection with information about attempts to extort funds by illegally using the name, telephone number or other elements of the image of the National Bank of Poland, we recommend that you exercise extreme caution when dealing with people offering emergency assistance whose identity is not confirmed. During telephone conversations, the principle of limited trust should be applied, including avoiding the transfer of sensitive information, data enabling logging into electronic banking, as well as installing applications for remote verification
– writes in the statement of the National Bank of Poland.
NBP warns, reminding that as a central bank it does not participate in the verification procedures of transfers on accounts of natural persons and does not provide banking services to individual customers and “has no supervisory competence in this area”. It is worth being very careful when talking to any person offering seemingly selfless help. In the case of conversations with bank consultants, it is worth verifying the employee (some banks allow you to do it in the mobile application) or call back the bank number known to us before providing any information. It is worth remembering that criminals are able to impersonate almost any company by displaying its name on the victim’s smartphone screen.
Source: Gazeta
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