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PETALING JAYA: Police warn of a fraud scheme involving a fake SMS allegedly from Public Bank that contains a link to a website that appears to be the bank’s.
On Wednesday, a 51-year-old woman filed a report with Petaling Jaya police, who said her account had been deleted after visiting the site and following the instructions to enter her bank information and password.
The message said his account was at high risk of being exposed to third parties, said the head of Selangor’s commercial crimes squad, Muhammad Yazid Muhammad Yew.
Said the link in the text message was to pbebankonline.com, and advised the public not to click the link as it is believed to be a new tactic used by scammers to mislead victims.
“So far, two similar cases have been reported in Selangor involving total losses of RM33,500,” he said.
The fake link in the SMS is similar to the genuine Public Bank website at “https://www.pbebank.com“. However, the Public Bank online login page uses “www2.pbebank.com“.
An FMT check in “pbebankonline.com“Tonight I just got an error message stating that the site cannot be accessed.
The existence of the fake site was highlighted yesterday by an anti-scammer group on Facebook that warned that “pbebankonline.com”It was a phishing site used to entice banking customers to reveal their account information and password online.
