If you are a Santander customer, be very careful about a new scam the bank is warning about.
Criminals are posing as Santander to ask you to repay a loan they gave you in error.
Banco Santander warns its customers about a new type of phishing scam. Cybercriminals pose as an organization via WhatsApp, SMS or email and, posing as Santander, claim that mistakenly extended a loan to their potential victim and then asked for it back.
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Santander warns its customers via email. In the email, they point out that criminals are impersonating them to provide them with your user data, signature key and electronic signature so they can pay off the loan by mistake. Of course there is no loan, it’s a scam.
This scam can reach in different ways, both WhatsApp and SMS or even callwhere criminals can use a fake call ID to impersonate the bank and make it appear as if they are actually calling. It is important to note that fraud can occur in different ways, Below we insert an example.
Example of WhatsApp Credit Fraud
In the example above, this is done via WhatsApp. The cybercriminals use language and formalities that seem real, but are not. They even go so far as to include the last four digits of the potential victim’s bank account. However, even if they were real, Don’t trust themthey could have gotten them through a leak and it would still have been fraud.
The banking organization emphasizes that will never ask you to repay the loanbut above all will never ask for an electronic signature and full access codeemphasizing that if the login is requested in full, then it is a scam. This also indicates that No messages should be taken into account, even if they clearly come from the bank. and that in the event of these events we must check the account through secure channels (Santander app and its website) to ensure that there are no suspicious movements.
In case we have provided informationdesirable Contact the bank immediately to tell us how to proceed. We must do this quickly, as urgency can mean the difference between the business remaining in panic or losing money.
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