Phishing email: “Your LBB credit card has been blocked for security reasons”

• Criminals want to steal your data with a well-known phishing scam.
• You are lured to a fake website to provide your personal information.
• Affected are customers of Landesbank Berlin (LBB)

“Your LBB credit card has been blocked for security reasons”. If you find this subject in one of your emails, it is a phishing email.

Identity verification after card blocking

This claims that your credit card had to be temporarily deactivated for security reasons. According to the consumer advice center, no other reasons are given as to why this security measure is taken.

In order to be able to use your card again, you will be asked to confirm your identity. To do this, you have to click on a link in the email, which takes you to a fake LBB website.

Deletes the mail so that there can be no misuse of data. If you have already entered your data, please contact the LBB hotline or your contact person immediately. In this way worse things can be prevented.

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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