N26 phishing: card blocked due to missing data

• Phishing scammers are contacting you on behalf of the online bank N26.
• Under the pretext of verification, they want to steal your data and plunder your account.
• Based on a few clues, the email can be clearly identified as an attempt at fraud.

After the focus of phishing fraudsters this week was primarily on customers from conventional banks, they are now targeting the accounts of the online bank N26. As always, your personal information is the target of the scam. In this case, a data comparison serves as a pretext for the theft.

What is striking about this message is the personal salutation with your e-mail address. As a rule, phishing emails are sent with an impersonal salutation and can therefore be recognized more quickly. Moving on, the senders claim that your N26 card had to be temporarily blocked due to outdated or corrupt data. An update of your account information is urgently required for the unlocking.

A button with the inscription “Verify your account” leads you to the supposed process. In truth, however, you will be taken to an N26 fake page, as reported by the consumer advice center. If you enter the required data there, it will immediately fall into the hands of the scammers. Cracking and looting your account becomes child’s play.

With a period of 24 hours, the criminals want to put additional pressure on you and threaten to permanently block your account after this period has expired. The scam can already be recognized as a phishing mail by this empty threat. Further clues are the dubious sender address. We advise you not to click on the link and simply put the mail in the spam folder.

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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