All Société Générale customers should now be wary. For several weeks, the bank and its members have been targeted by phishing and “phishing” attempts, indicates Capital. Of pirates try to retrieve personal identifiers in order to gain access to online accounts. To do this, they always use the same method. These crooks text their victim making them believe that their account has been locked.
“SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE INFO: Your account has (sic) been locked for security reasons. Please unlock your access here”, is it possible to read (the message does contain this conjugation error). Customers, who are fooled, must then provide their password, their customer code, or even personal information (name, first name, address, telephone number, etc.). All these settings then allow hackers to gain access to their account. To make this phishing as credible as possible, the victims are redirected to a fake bank site.
How then to avoid being had?
Lots of spelling mistakes
In order to help Société Générale customers, the website Numerama has experienced the trap (a part precisely) set by the crooks who send these SMS. In the first place, spelling mistakes can be ignoring. The message already has one, but so does the bogus site. Moreover, the latter tries to get as close as possible to the original one, but the result leaves much to be desired.
If the login page is a true copy of that of Société Générale, the last one is particularly poorly done. However, some people still get cheated. How to act in this case?
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