Friday, 13 May 2016

Fraudulent Email Addresses


Fraudsters usually send emails trying to mimic banks and other financial institutes. An example is the email snapshot above. An email claiming to be a debit alert from UBA (United Bank for Africa), but when you closely examine the email address it was sent from <pnihoubad@hodship.net> which is not the email address of the bank. The first part "Udirect@ubagroup.com" is just a name given by the fraudster, to deceive people to assume it's from the bank.
Always check which email address emails are from. The above snapshot is from a Yahoo mailbox. Other email providers show it in different ways. For some, you might need to pass your mouse over the sender's name, to reveal the email address it is from.

Thursday, 12 May 2016

First Post

Welcome to Bank Tips 101.
Due to the alarming rate of bank fraud going on, it is essential for people to be sensitised on how best to protect themselves from fraudsters. We would be writing on new tips and exposing common fraud patterns. Feel free to narrate your encounters so we can help and others can benefit from past cases. Your editor is OGUNLANA OLUSHOLA GABRIEL, who was awarded Best Student Programmer in Nigeria NACOSS National 2008. You can check on Google to confirm. Nice having you here.