"GTBank Your Token Device Will soon Expire" Phishing Scam
The email message below, which claims that the recipients' token device will soon expire, is a phishing scam. The fake email message was not sent by GTBank, a Nigerian financial institution, but by cyber-criminals. Therefore, the instructions in the fake message should not be followed and the links in it should never be clicked. The links will take potential victims to a fake GTBank website created to trick them into stealing their GTBank's usernames and passwords, and other personal information. It is not recommended for online users to click on a link in an email message to sign into online accounts. They should instead go directly to their online account providers' websites and sign into their accounts from there. This is the best method of preventing phishing scams.
The "GTBank Your Token Device Will soon Expire" Phishing Scam
Subject: Your token device will soon expire
From: intops@gtbank.com - bran.lim@harwin.com.sg
This message was identified as spam. We'll delete it after 10 days. It's not spam
Flag for follow up. Start by Monday, December 04, 2017. Due by Monday, December 04, 2017.
Please ensure you synchronise and activate your token device .Mr Samson
Adewale will be Activating and synchronize your token on the new platform
https://ibank.gtbank.com/ibank3/Landing.aspx
reactivate your token device within 24 Hours of notice to avoid Service interuption/Suspension.
Thank you for choosing Guaranty Trust Bank plc
Thank you for choosing GTBank
PRIVACY POLICY ACCESSIBILITY TERMS OF USE SITEMA© GTBankPLC 2017
Every month, thousands of these email messages are sent out by scammers to tricktheir potential victims into stealing their username, password, financial or personal information. Therefore, online users should never click on links in an email message to sign into or log on to any of their online accounts. Instead, GTBank customers should always go directly to www.gtbank.com in their web browsers and sign into their accounts from there.
If there is a problem with their accounts, they will be notified after signing or logging in. GTBank customers who were tricked into clicking the link in the fake email message and who have entered their GTBank usernames and passwords on the bogus website that they were taken to, should change their GTBank passwords and contact GTBank immediately.
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