The Secretary-General of the Banking Information and Awareness Committee in Saudi Banks, warned of the process of updating suspicious data over the phone, stressing the continuation of the public awareness campaign launched by Saudi banks to avoid the risks of fraud and fraud..
The Secretary of the Media Committee explained that one of its most prominent topics is related to suspicious phone calls, Which requires bank customers to update their bank data and personal information in order to avoid freezing their accounts, stressing that banks do not request to update bank data Or the personal information of its customers over the phone under any circumstances, as the only way to update the data is through the branches only He explained that fraudsters made suspicious telephone calls to victims in order to make them believe that they were bank employees, asking them to provide their bank data, including ATM and credit card secret numbers or electronic banking passwords, under the pretext of updating the bank statements in order to avoid them being frozen, which would result in direct losses to the victims