2cato: The funny thing is thatThe rightful authorities are doing nothing about it. The banks and CBN are turning blind eye towards such development and this keep me wandering whether most of their staff are involve. Boys are not smilling.

This is the most WORRYING aspect.
They probably do not realize how much such NEGLIGENT attitude of financial and law enforcement authorities will erode confidence in our economy and banks both from within and foreign interests.

Godfullsam: Only a greedy fool can fall victim of scam. You can not fall victim of scammers if you do not av desires to reap from where you did not sow.
Op thanks for the information anyway...

Read the post again

Wasteful use of talent

Only Greedy Fools fall victim of scam. You can not fall victim of scammers if you do not av desires to reap from where you did not sow.

Scammers and their Wasteful use of talent

hahahahaha,true bro but so many have fallen victim...oya over to where we meet,you know naaa

jnrbayano: Many thanks Debbie

If they try me, I will be the one to collect the little they have from them.

Ndi ara!

Chai, na wa o.

Thank you op.

Just got this obviously fraudulent mail a few minutes ago (and I no even get First Bank account!):

FirstAlert@firstbanknigeria.com <firstonline001@hotmail.co.uk>

11:27 AM (1 hour ago)

to me
Dear Customer

FIRSTONLINE ALERT

We Regret to inform you that we are undergoing some malfunctions in our online banking system.

Please verify and take a security registration for your active online account with us by following this link https://ibank.firstbanknigeria.com/FBN/



Thank you for patronising First Bank plc.

NOTE: This is an automated Transaction

maga no need Pay

Very Funny!! I got the first bank mail twice now but I have been kinda wary cox I dnt have an account with first bank so I wasn't so disturbed but since u just said there's one for Gtb also then I will just be ready incase they send me that also but what I know is that this people can't do all this shits without the help of any insider! Am waiting for the day my money will be deducted without my prior directive that day GTB branch anywhere I walk into will know they have an educated madman as a visitor because this shits can't be done without the help of an insider.they should find the mole b4 I help them out...

Thank you for this information.

I got this same messages from three different banks,but I don't answer such mails because your bank clearly states that they will never ask you to send your personal details to them for any reason.thanks a lot for sharing this info because people have to be informed And vigilant........

I got this on August 11

I noticed that sender's name is FirstBank@firstbanknigeria.com while senders e-mail is skey@xtra.co.nz

Dear valued customer,

You have been successfully migrated to the new FirstOnline, our enhanced internet banking solution

Kindly update all your records with us correctly to prevent service interruption/suspension.

KINDLY FOLLOW THE BELOW INSTRUCTION

1. Go to https://www.1stbanknigeria- online.com/corp/ .

2.Enter Your Current USERID & PASSWORD & a TOKEN CODE

3. It is mandatory to enter the code generated by your FBN hardware token device

4. Lastly, Provide the Answer to your secret questions

5. 5. Please kindly move this message to your inbox folder if found in your junk

KINDLY NOTE THAT YOU ARE REQUIRED TO IN PUT YOUR TOKEN CODE FOR SUCCESSFUL UPDATES TO OUR NEW SITE

You must Synchronize your token to avoid locking of your token thereby making it impossible to carry out transactions online.

Thank you for banking with us..com

2cato: The funny thing is thatThe rightful authorities are doing nothing about it. The banks and CBN are turning blind eye towards such development and this keep me wandering whether most of their staff are involve. Boys are not smilling.

Please don't misinform people.

Banks and CBN are observing these trends. And there are Information Security Units across banks saddled with the responsibility of monitoring phishing attacks targeted to customers. Such phishing sites and emails are taken down ones they get alert that there's a phishing attempt.

If you know the amount that is spent on taking down a phishing site, you won't say there are not down anything.
Hackers are just persistent. Banks are doing a lot to create awareness via text messages and emails informing customers never to compromise their banking details.

I have been seeing many from banks and yahoomail

The people most susceptible to this scam are those that use email app and especially iPad and iPhone users and safari browser.

The scammers uses the feature that hid the full email address and display only the name of the mail owner which can be customised at will.

Seeing Yahoomail email address and logo, some people might not even check for the full address of the sender.

dedons: ...all scammers are janjaweedians and all janjaweedians are scammers...






APC must be responsible for this!

You don start o!

These scammers dont even know how to upgrade. They've been using this same format since 200 AD.

Please also take note of the one they normally send from YAHOO.COM
ABEG ITS ANOTHER SCAM OOOOO,
Yahoo can not demand to close your account or deactivate your account on some funny reasons.
DONT CLICK ON SUCH LINKS PLEASE
thanks

Mail Phishing is what it's called. Thank you for the awareness. Social Engineering still remains the technique used by millions of criminals to exploit the credulous victims since human is the weakest link in computer security. May I suggest that people reading this should not welcome any email from their banks about upgrading their account as some cyber rogues have gone to the point of using watering hole, URL hijacking, etc to steal victims information. Prevention: Security awareness. Educate Others.

More so, desist from clicking on any email link you don't have knowledge of, as this may install malware on your system via client-side attack without your consent. And if Malware is installed on your system, it may take charge of your root directory, install keyloggers, backdoor, thereby recording every possible keystrokes entered on your system. Your system could as well be used as part of botnets used in attacking mainframe companies, etc. Prevention: Install Anti virus, anti malware(malwarebytes), cosmo firewall, spybot, UTMS, etc. And last but not least, stop going to porn websites, as these criminals use these websites for drive-by download.

I do get several of same mails for first bank, gtb, even perfect money,.
One day i decide to follow the link... Put wrong details and they accept it... Wrong account number, name, security questions, etc
they now said i should put 3 different login digits from my token,..
Those boys are good but not good enough to scam me...

Now on Facebook a guy would open a profile with a fine girl pic,. And be sending messages to guys,.. Asking to reply with their yahoo mail.. Why yahoo when we can chat on Facebook..

Bro no night school is involved ,but its all about wisdom wrongly used....naija boys are talented,but they are using it all for mischief and deceit.

justi4jesu: scammers are upgrading everyday i dont know if them dem get night school go learn these things

Ok

debbie: Bro no night school is involved ,but its all about wisdom wrongly used....naija boys are talented,but they are using it all for mischief and deceit.

This is not talent. Talent always requires 100% of human application to certain technical problems. This is SCAM not TALENT!

adanduka: I got the first bank email and I clicked on it. Some letters on my laptop keyboard seized up till date and I experience system errors while using it. Prior to this my system was in perfect condition.

You have a bot on your laptop. Please kindly format and start afresh; don't rely on your antivirus.

PAGAN9JA: Nigerians........scamming since 1800s

Paper excerpt from 02-October-1949 :

The Sunday Herald

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/28665036

This is insulting.....darkest Africa!!!!!

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Thanks op.......but my type doesn't fall to this ship scam....which bank ask his/her customer to specify they account online?

2cato: The funny thing is thatThe rightful authorities are doing nothing about it. The banks and CBN are turning blind eye towards such development and this keep me wandering whether most of their staff are involve. Boys are not smilling.

I disageee. Almost on a daily basis, I get from my mails from banks with which I have online accounts cautioning against clicking any link in my email asking for whatever reason. The banks will never ask you click on a link to update your account.

It is very surprising people still fall for such scams.

Sijo01: These scammers dont even know how to upgrade. They've been using this same format since 200 AD.

It's not about upgrading, there are over 170,000,000 people in Nigeria, all they need is just a tad of those figures and pepper don rest. Think about it

tonardo: I do get several of same mails for first bank, gtb, even perfect money,.
One day i decide to follow the link... Put wrong details and they accept it... Wrong account number, name, security questions, etc
they now said i should put 3 different login digits from my token,..
Those boys are good but not good enough to scam me...

Now on Facebook a guy would open a profile with a fine girl pic,. And be sending messages to guys,.. Asking to reply with their yahoo mail.. Why yahoo when we can chat on Facebook..

Abi o dey even send d msgs to gals. I receive it almost every month nd she ll say she s an orphan from liberia wit rich parents money hidden somewere. Den d most recent one i received was a text on my fone sent wit international no asking me to call him. Heard from some friends dat its d new one now. Nawa for naija