The DOJ warned the public against “bank text scams”.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday warned the public against “bank text scams” or scams involving text messages that were reportedly sent by a bank and other financial institutions.
In a report on Manila Bulletin, the Department of Justice – Office of Cybercrime (DOJ-OOC) told the public in its social media advisory to look for “common red flags” that would show that the text messages they had received could be “scams”.
The red flags, DOJ-OOC emphasized, include unregistered sender, grammatical errors in the text message, and a link wherein the receiver may allegedly report the incident.
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In addition, the DOJ-OOC stressed that if one of the foregoing red flags was present, it was safe to assume that the text message received was a scam.
Moreover, the DOJ-OOC reminded the public that the most careful way in order to confirm the validity of the text message was “by calling the banks’ hotline numbers that are posted on their respective official websites”.
An advisory from DOJ-OCC came after its attention was called on the recent modus being employed by scammers via text messages in order to bait prospective victims into clicking a certain link that will direct the victim to a phishing website.
“The modus would involve receiving a text message from the victim’s supposed banking institution during the wee hours of the night, informing the said victim about an OTP (one-time password) she or he requested. The text message further encourages the victim to go to a certain website by clicking the link embedded therein if he/she is not the one who allegedly requested for the OTP,” DOJ-OOC said.
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