PKO Bank Polski warns about emails, whose authors impersonate this financial institution. Fraudsters send alleged “confirmation of the transfer”, and opening the message and downloading the attachment may cause us to lose money.
“Watch out for false emails impersonating the bank on the subject: 'Confirmation of the transfer'
The largest Polish bank emphasizes that “is not the author of these messages”.
This is the sample message that scammers send:
PKO BP warns against fraud – an example e -mailPKO BP
These messages have an attachment called PKOBANK.pdf, PKO-362712.pdf or similar, which contains malicious software.
“Do not open the attachments and do not click on links in this type of e -mail. If you click on the link, you can lose money and control over the account” – calls PKO BP.
The largest banks in Poland
PKO BP is the largest bank in Poland. It has about 12 million customers, and the value of assets exceeded PLN 500 billion.
The next places in the ranking of the largest banks in terms of assets are occupied by Pekao, Santander, ING and mBank.
Another action of fraudsters
Recently, cybersecurity experts warned, among others Before false email calls calling on to pay payments for travel in the e-TOLL systemand also a new fraud – using stolen PESEL numbers to conclude fictitious OC contracts.
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