Bankia, BBVA, Santander, ING and now, CaixaBank. This bank has become the latest victim of the identity theft that hackers have been carrying out from time to time.

These usually take advantage of the name of some established brands to perpetrate their bad practices. However, while it is true that the method used tends to change, it is also true that they take advantage of the trust transmitted by these companies to try to steal our data and, therefore, our savings.

The latest attempt uses email to mislead customers. Keep in mind that, as a general rule, we are going to receive many advertising messages that we can classify as spam. However, those used by criminals tend to take more serious tones.

In the case of CaixaBank, it is a message in which you are alerted to a card lock. “We regret to inform you that we have blocked your card for your own protection. This security procedure went into effect because you have not yet confirmed your credit card. Click on the following link to unblock it ”, it appears in a text full of spelling mistakes.

Thus, with the excuse of updating some or other data, cybercriminals forward their victims to a web portal where, in all probability, they will be able to control all the information that we write.

Among them, our banking credentials. This practice is known as phishing and we can quickly identify it: the text usually contains misprints, syntactic inconsistencies, broken links, meaningless expressions, perhaps, not all at once, but at least some of them do.

A decisive element is to look at the address from which the email is sent. If it does not match the domain of the corresponding bank, everything seems to indicate that it is false. In addition, it must be borne in mind that these entities will never request personal data so directly and without any prior control mechanisms.

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