Prevention of Phishing attacks

A method of illegally capturing personal security data

IMPORTANT: Karnataka Bank does not ask for personal security details like your Internet banking or phone banking passwords on the email, phone or otherwise. Never disclose your passwords to anyone, even to the bank's staff. In case you get an email or a phone call asking your personal security details or a Bank staff approaches you to disclose your password, please report to us. You can send an email to info@ktkbank.com

What is phishing?

Phishing is a technique employed by scamsters to illegally procure personal information like account numbers, Debit\Credit Card nos, Internet banking user ids and passwords, etc.

The most frequently used method is to send a spam email to a large database of email ids say, all yahoo ids or all rediff ids etc. The spam email is designed in such a way as to look exactly like an email sent by the targeted company / bank.

The email simply asks the recipient to click on a link and enter their user id and password. Different techniques are used to lure the recipient to click on the link: validation of account information, threat of account suspension, etc.

If recipient take precaution and observe carefully, the link will not lead to our website: http://www.karnatakabank.com

Never click on any such link and never enter your login id and password without verifying the authenticity of the web page.