The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has issued an advisory to the public pertaining to phishing scams.<\/p>\n
Phishing is a form of identity theft whereby someone steals or uses personal or sensitive information of another person without his\/her knowledge or permission, through hacking into one\u2019s personal account, hijacking one\u2019s data and taking over one\u2019s online identity, to commit fraudulent acts\/crimes, or conduct unauthorized business.<\/p>\n
Once the scammers have your information, it becomes possible for them to withdraw money or purchase items under your name, open a new bank or credit card account, use your present account to illegally deal with other people, or encash checks on your behalf.<\/p>\n
Scammers may also install computer viruses and worms or embed them in your e-mail and disseminate more phishing e-mails to other people.<\/p>\n
These fraudsters usually send an e-mail with a generic greeting, such as \u201cDear Customer\u201d or \u201cTo Our Valued Client\u201d with an urgent message or content containing a threat such as \u201cVerify your account\u201d, \u201cUpdate your account\u201d, or \u201cFailure to do so will result in account suspension.\u201d<\/p>\n
The message is usually accompanied by a link that, when clicked, leads to a spoofed or fake website which asks you to input your personal and financial information such as User IDs, passwords and account and personal identification numbers.<\/p>\n
Scammers may use official-looking logos and other identifying information from a financial institution or other legitimate organization.<\/p>\n
Phishing may be done in various methods other than e-mail, such as text messages, chat rooms, electronic fake banner advertisements or message boards, fake mailing lists, fake job search sites and job offers, and fake browser toolbars.<\/p>\n
To avoid being victimized by Phishing scams, do not reply to suspicious e-mails.\u00a0 Ignore and delete the message. Do not click any link in a suspicious message. Do not give personal and financial information requested through e-mail.<\/p>\n
Instead, call your bank and send a letter to verify if such e-mail request is real. If you think you have given out information to a phisher, report the incident immediately to the company that was spoofed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) has issued an advisory to the public pertaining to phishing scams. Phishing is a form of identity theft whereby someone steals or uses personal or sensitive information of another person without his\/her knowledge or permission, through hacking into one\u2019s personal account, hijacking one\u2019s data and taking over one\u2019s online […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[3087,413,3086,657],"class_list":["post-9158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-bangko-sentral-ng-pilipinas","tag-banking","tag-identity-theft","tag-phishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}