Phishing attacks use email and websites designed to imitate the communications of actual financial institutions. Their objective is to fool recipients into divulging details such as credit card numbers, account usernames and passwords. Under the guise of fake security and maintenance upgrades, phoney investigations, and sham bills and charges, some customers of other financial institutions have been tricked into giving out information.
Whilst these types of attacks have typically focussed on customers of the Big 4 banks, recently attacks have been focusing on credit unions and building societies.
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