Bank of Maldives (BML) has once again urged its customers to be extra vigilant in light of new scam wave.
The national bank of the island nation has advised against sharing sensitive data with people calling under the guise of BML employees, or in the pretext of lucky-draws and similar calls.
The bank has repeatedly advised its customer base on the bank’s policies regarding communicating with its customers. BML reiterates that the bank will never contact to customers seeking sensitive information regarding their personal banking accounts.
Speaking in this manner, the bank’s Public Relations Manager Mohamed Saeed made emphasis on a new wave of scam calls. Many of the bank’s customers have already lost sizeable portions of their savings.
The scammers often contact via direct phone calls or phishing mails with hyperlinks that are in reality a back-door pass for the hackers to access crucial data. Hackers often use such ‘piggybacking’ methods to gain access into login credentials of customers, after which they siphon funds off from them.
BML further highlights on protecting mail addresses. Mail addresses are often used to log into internet banking accounts, and transfer funds elsewhere.
Some of the more recent scam calls often involve the pretext of the targeted victim presumably winning flats or row-houses at Hulhumale’. The callers often disguise themselves as personnel from various government ministries.
During such calls, the victims are often instructed to access their mail addresses or provide such details to the callers.
The bank further alerts on the convincing and ‘professional’ manner in which scammers often converse.