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The Federation of Consumers in Action reported a new attack of Pishing
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 | The customers of Santander bank have been victims of a new case of Pishing attack, the popular tendency of ripping off banking accounts through fake e-mail messages that drive the recipient to sites that are a replication of the original ones. |
The Federation of Consumers in Action (for its acronym in Spanish Facua) informed about the new e-mails that hundreds of users receive inciting them to put his banking information in fake sites. The aim of this is to gather the information entered in the site in order to give it to those responsible of the crime, the so called “Pishers”.
| Facua revealed numerous faults that show the quality of the message and that are always the same ones: information that is never requested through e-mail, grammatical and spelling mistakes and distrustful addresses, for example, www.grupostander.ru. The extension of this page belongs to the national domain of Russia. |
On this occasion, the excuse that incites the user to access fraud pages is centered around a technical problem that caused numerous accounts to be out of action. This situation requires the customer’s collaboration to activate such accounts by giving their user’s data. Facua already announced this event to Santander and to the Telematic Offences Bureau of the Civil Guard and suggested the same that all the companies discovering this kind of events: to ignore this e-mail messages that request information of great magnitude by an unreliable route. The problem is that pishing happens all around the world because there are persons that have nothing to do with the bank and they receive the e-mails as spam.
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