Banco Sabadell didn’t block your card, it’s a scam

Through these scams SMS known as smishingA method by which cybercriminals send an SMS message pretending to be a company or organization that establishes trust in the recipient to enable them to provide personal data, from passwords to bank account numbers.

As usual, SMS prompts the user to access a link to a fake web pagevery similar to the real thing and asks for your password to access. This way, criminals save these credentials and then access their bank accounts to commit the theft.

The latest scam in these weeks, Sabadell Bank, as journalist Fernando H. Valls denounced on Twitter. In this case, as seen in the screenshot shared by Valls, criminals send a message to Sabadell customers informing them that their card has been blocked and ask you to access the account to reactivate it. Like this journalist warns: “This kind of message is never punctured.”

The truth is that one kind very common scam and several users also warned similar scam BBVA.

However, there are a number of Tips on these SMS’s that could be key to detecting if it’s really a scam:

• To the sender’s attention: The first thing that triggers our alarms is the phone number the SMS came from if it’s an unknown number. If in doubt, the ideal is to search for this phone number on the Internet, as it often warns other people when users have a bad experience with fake numbers.
• Let’s analyze the content: The most common is that these scams try to convey a sense of urgency so that the buyer feels pressured and acts on instinct. We should also be suspicious if this message is misspelled.
• We should never click on the link: It’s usually not a good idea to open the attached links in an SMS. Facing a wave of fraud, banks have repeatedly repeated that they will never use this method to reset passwords that have been forgotten or compromised for security reasons.