Were you affected? Sophisticated scam targets NAB customers
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Customers who bank with NAB, one of Australia’s big four banks, have been impacted by a sophisticated phishing scam.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The bank has been targeted by online scammers who are hoping to get confidential details from users.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Email security company MailGuard discovered the scam, according to </span><a href="https://finance.nine.com.au/small-business/nab-scam-fake-bpay-transaction-attempts-to-steal-personal-information/b1f47fe3-2b15-4aa8-8ee3-cec6078545ac"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Nine Finance</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;"> It has been sent from several compromised accounts pretending to be NAB.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Customers receive an email that looks like an official correspondence from NAB, explaining that their last BPAY was put on hold. It invites victims to click on a provided link to check their transaction history.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Once victims click the link, they are taken to a page that looks like the official NAB login page, but is a sophisticated copy.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Unsuspecting recipients who click on the link to check their BPAY Payment status are led to a convincing-looking copy of the NAB login page. This is actually a phishing page,” explained MailGuard.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Once information has been entered, it is then harvested by the criminals before redirecting them to the actual NAB website.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">“Cybercriminals have taken great pains to replicate official landing pages from NAB – including incorporating the bank’s branding and logo using high-quality graphical elements. All this is done in an attempt to trick the users into thinking the scam is legitimate,” explained MailGaurd.</span></p>
