Urgent warning from the bank. Are Poles’ savings at risk?

There are so many online and telephone fraud methods that it is difficult to count them all. We’ve come a long way from simple email scam attempts. Now, fraudsters are reaching the heights of their acting abilities and manipulating their victims to an extent never seen before.

Alior Bank warns against fraud

In its latest warning to its clients, Alior Bank emphasizes that one issue is key and common to many such attempts. The idea is to create a sense of immediate threat to make it easier to control a panicked customer. The scenarios are different, but the goal is the same – to confuse and deceive the victim, to lull his vigilance and gain temporary authority for better manipulation.

As the website biznesinfo.pl points out, other actors are sometimes involved in such “criminal theater”. During a telephone conversation, the fraudster “switches” us to policemen, other bank employees, and managers, just to convince the listener that the situation is serious and, of course, true. It’s also about setting the pace so that the victim doesn’t have time to think.

The bank reminds that its procedures rarely require immediate performance of complex activities. It does not encourage you to click on the links provided. Each such situation should convince us that we have been the target of an attack. Any requests for interaction via SMS are almost always a fraud attempt.

Alior Bank points out that fraudsters can convince their victims that it is the bank employees themselves who are behind the attempted theft. In this way, the victim is influenced not to verify anything with real representatives of the company. Then, under the guise of adding a security module or verification application, they install a program for remote control of the device at the customer.

Beware of online scams. The bank raises awareness of similar attempts

In the announcement, the bank even provided the names of such programs. These are AnyDesk and TeamViewer, which a real bank will never ask us to install. Unfortunately, these are not the only methods of fraudsters. The more daring ones may ask for Blik codes, express transfers or even withdrawing money at an ATM. We should never believe a person who demands that we hand over our payment card for examination. The bank will never send its employees to a customer’s home for such a purpose.

If we feel that we have fallen victim to scammers, we should hang up immediately and not call back. It is best to contact the bank’s official hotline to make sure of the situation. If we seriously suspect fraud, we should call either the bank or law enforcement authorities.