Bank Windhoek Cautions Clients of Phishing E-mail

Namibia-based Bank Windhoek is cautioning customers for being on the lookout of one phishing campaign, which's presently doing the rounds, thus published allafrica.com dated November 25, 2011.

The phishing e-mail displaying the subject line: "Internet Banking Access Suspended" while targeting Bank Windhoek's clients tells that the financial institution has blocked their access to the bank's Internet facilities owing to many unsuccessful login attempts lately noticed within the bank's security logs. Thus to reinstate clients' Internet access, users are urged they follow a given web-link. For, once the real login details are entered, they'll be able to access the bank's Internet services again, the e-mail adds.

To sound real, the fake message even finishes by signing from Customers Service, Bank Windhoek, officers at the Bank disclose.

Surprisingly, the given web-link takes the user onto some profootball.com site and this should raise doubt. Windhoek customers are therefore recommended that they avoid answering such scam e-mails, however, legitimate they may appear, the officers add.

Moreover the Bank informs that it won't ever in any situation interact with customers for personal information through electronic mail, nor will it ever request them for providing their confidential details through the same means.

Further, customers finding any web-link within an electronic mail asking them for validating personal account information must necessarily shun it.

Meanwhile, remarking about the above stated phishing e-mail, Communication Practitioner Wilfried Hahner of Bank Windhoek said that incase any recipient was suspicious of an e-mail's authenticity he should ignore/delete the message as well as report it to the bank soon. Bank Windhoek would keep on spreading awareness about such deceptive phishing scams for safeguarding its customers from getting victimized, Hahner reiterated. Namibiansun.com published this dated November 23, 2011.

However, according to Hahner, Windhoek Bank wouldn't be able to do anything regarding any financial loss for customers who divulged personal information voluntarily to any scammer.

Conclusively, customers of Bank Windhoek getting targeted with a phishing scam aren't unknown. During June 2011, a phishing electronic message captioned "Improved Card Security" targeted clients of the Bank with the aim to take them onto a phishing site and therein steal their account particulars.

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