CEC Bank is at the center of a very important alert that is sent to customers all over Romania, and this is because we are talking about an extremely serious problem that can lead to serious money losses. More precisely, those from CEC Bank have the image used in a new phishing campaign whose purpose is to trick customers into making payments to the attackers based on false payment documents, and the money in these situations is difficult to recover.
CEC Bank has issued several alerts to its clients recently regarding this extremely serious problem, but the one we are talking about now comes directly from the authorities in Romania. The situation is extremely serious at the moment, so serious that the Romanian government agency for cyber security published the image below that shows how they try to trick CEC Bank customers into making payments to the attackers.
CEC Bank: Important ALERT Sent to Romanian Customers
CEC Bank has repeatedly told customers to ignore any kind of emails like the one above that reach them, but unfortunately not everyone does, especially since it seems to be quite real. Unlike the usual attacks, this one is written quite correctly from a grammatical point of view, so it is not as easy to detect as a fraud, as in the case of other similar attacks targeting CEC Bank clients in Romania.
CEC Bank cannot protect clients from these types of attacks, and this is because they come from attackers who hide their identity, and payments made as a result of these frauds cannot always be recovered. If we also take into account the new regulations of the PSD2 directive, at the European level, the recovery of the money sent becomes much more difficult because it is done by the customer knowingly, so everything cannot always be stopped before there is a loss for the customer.
CEC Bank tells its customers to ask for help every time there are problems of this kind, and this is the only solution to prevent money losses is to be careful and not to follow through on requests of this kind.
