the Popular Savings Bank (BPA) of Cuba denounces impersonation to its customers on the island, by detecting practices of fishing (impersonation) via text messaging (SMS) and instant messaging in How are you, In which the issuer pretended to be this bank.
“We recently detected actions of fishing (impersonation) against the People’s Savings Bank“Impersonating our corporate identity, creating false and erroneous expectations in customers,” warns an information note from the BPA on its institutional Facebook profile on Wednesday.
The note explains that fishing (impersonation) it is a simple method of cyberattack, with which the perpetrators of the crime appropriate confidential information from people, by promising rewards on behalf of a trusted institution.
Equally warned that “In the face of any suspicious message, all recipients must be alert, and as an immediate action do not provide any sensitive data. which may affect their monetary or telephone balances “.
He also called on those affected to “contact our institution immediately through the different communication channels, Whether on social media, email, as well as over the phone. “
The note pointed out “qthat these events are part of the media campaigns that have been increasing – especially in recent months against Cuba, In which actions have been taken to discredit the government and its institutions “.
No obstacles, the fishing (impersonation) is one of the oldest and best known scams on the internet and which has been detected worldwide.
It is a type of telecommunications fraud that he uses social engineering tricks to get private data from your victims.
It is a cybercrime technique qeu uses fraud, deception and scam to manipulate its victims and get them to reveal confidential personal information, Clarifies the website of Avast, one of the largest security companies in the world, and which uses state-of-the-art technologies to deal with real-time cyberattacks.
Same explains that fishing (impersonation) is a combination of words meaning fishing (“fishing”, in English, with the same pronunciation as “phishing”) with an attractive bait to see if any victim stings in the vast “ocean” of Internet users.
the letters ph of “phishing” come from a hobby of the mid-twentieth century, the so-called “phone phreaking”, which consisted of experimenting with telecommunications networks to find out how they work: Phreaking + fishing = fishing.
The BPA information note, although denouncing this practice, does not suggest to its customers known actions that many banks in the world explain to their users so that they do not fall victim to these cybercriminals, such as do not open or reply to emails or messages from unknown senders, Move the cursor over the message to see if links to questionable pages appear, do not open files of questionable senders, carefully read the sender’s domain, many carry spelling errors, among other actions.