Costa Rican Banks Warn of Phishing
The holiday season is a boom time for online
fraudsters, this year focusing on the
requirement of Costa Rican banks to update
their clients information.
A typical scam is to obtain login and
password information from a randomly sent
email.
The email asks the recipient to urgently log
in and update their account information,
using the link in the email, or face
possible account closing.
The link is usually to a web page that is
similar in every aspect to the web page of
the bank, with one exception, the page is
not being hosted on the bank's server and
any information entered is recorded by the
fraudster and the used to access the real
account.
So far this month of December, only
customers of the Banco de Costa Rica (BCR)
have filed complaints, but customers of
other banks, both private and state, may be
targets.
The BCR, like the other banks, assure that
they never ask for log-in information from
an email and that access should only be made
on a web page on a secured server.
The "https://" prefix denotes a connection
to a secure server. On some web browser,
like Firefox, the URL line is highlighted.
It is also recommended that users close
their session and not leave the page hanging
or move on to another page without properly
closing, especially when accessing a bank
account from a public computer, like an
internet café.
Although most bank websites time out - that
is close the session automatically after a
specified time of inaction - this is not a
good internet practice.
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