Volksbank customers targeted by cyber gangsters

After Christmas, cyber gangsters primarily target Volksbank customers. Because at the moment phishing mails that claim to come from the Volksbank land in the mailboxes.

The subject line of the fraudulent emails is “News in online banking-2021-12-27”. If you move the mouse pointer over the alleged sender – in several cases we know of that is a “Daniel Pirzl from Volksbank customer service” – you can see where the email actually came from: not from Volksbank.

After the general salutation “Dear customer”, a longer text follows, in which it is stated that “on November 23, 2021, changes to the ‘Payment Services Directive 2’ (PSD2) came into force in the European Union”. That would lead to the introduction of a two-step authentication for logging in to online banking. But the recipient’s online banking is not yet prepared for this, which is why they now have to check their customer data. This review must take place by December 31, 2021, otherwise the Volksbank would have to terminate the online banking access. The reference to PSD2 and the associated introduction of two-step authentication is an old scam that has often been used for phishing emails.

Below is an orange button with the text “To change”.

As always, delete this email without clicking anything in it. Your bank will never send you an email asking you to click links or buttons to log into your online banking.

Lately there has been a huge amount of phishing emails on various subjects.

Here is the overview: