Consors financial phishing: your credit card data is at risk

• Cyber ​​criminals pretend to be the Consors Finanz institute in a phishing email.
• The aim of the scam is your credit card data.
• A security procedure serves as an excuse for theft.

The Consors Finanz bank stores essential data about you that enable access to your finances. No wonder scammers want to use a phishing scam to capture precisely this data. If they succeed, they can misuse your credit card and cause great financial damage.

In the message with the subject “Security notice: Account temporarily suspended”, the criminals want you to believe that your account is subject to restrictions because you have not yet confirmed the Secur’Pass Mastercard Identity Check security procedure. The usual use of your account is only possible again if you carry out the supposedly necessary process. A link should take you there.

As the consumer advice center reports, you will be guided to a fake page where your personal data will be requested. If you give them, the scammers have achieved their goal and can spend money at your expense. We therefore advise you not to click on the link and simply move the mail to the spam folder.

Incidentally, you can recognize the phishing attempt by the sender address and the threat of an account ban. Don’t be unsettled if the email contains real information about yourself, such as your name or email address.

Simple signs: This is how you recognize every phishing email

A first indication that you have received a phishing email: the email will ask you to confirm personal data or to enter it on a website. This Under no circumstances should you comply with the request. In addition, criminals often use the official logos of the companies they are copying in their emails, but not official sender addresses.

If you find the sender suspicious, you should read the email twice. You will often find spelling mistakes or inconsistencies in German grammar. The attackers usually do not write their emails themselves, but instead use automatically generated messages or translate known emails with a translation program. But why all the effort?

What do criminals achieve with phishing attacks?

Phishing is used on the Internet to collect real user data. Money can be made with these if e-mail addresses, names and other information are sold for advertising purposes or passed on in criminal forums. With the data obtained, cyber criminals can also address future phishing attacks in a more targeted manner, making their attacks more effective.

Attachments and links contained in malicious e-mails also often inject malware or viruses onto your computer. In addition, you should not simply ignore suspicious emails. Forward them to the above email address and help us report future phishing attacks.

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