BCR Issues "Phishing"
Alert
If you are a customer of
the Banco de Costa Rica
(BCR), take note.
BCR customers are again
target of "phishing"
emails - emails that
solicit the respondent
to click on a link to
update their account
information.
The link is actually a
page not of the bank and
is used to obtain
information by the
scammers to access the
account.
The BCR has made it
clear that it does not
solicit its customers
personal information by
email or by phone and
customers should not
respond to any such
emails and can call the
bank's customer service
at 506 284 6600 for any
assistance.
Last week the Sala IV or
Constitutional Court
rejected an appeal by a
customer who demanded
that the bank be
responsible for the
money taken from his
account by scammers. The
court said that the
customer should file a
criminal complaint with
the Fiscalía
(prosecutor's office)
and that the bank was
not responsible for the
loss. |
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