An increasing phishing peril to Indian Banking Industry
At least the second part of June 2009 has witnessed a significant increase in the number of phishing websites that have been targetting indian banks. On a quick sample, my emailbox has been recieving on an average of 2 phishing emails per day from June 10 through June 21 and then the average has changed to 1 email per day from June 22 through June 28. I have been diligenty reporting each one to ibrm.co@axisbank.com and ibrm@axisbank.com so that these sites could be brought down quickly before they wreak havoc on more number of customers.
I am sure that the Anti-Phishing team at Axis Bank (and similar other banks) would have also recieved at least 10x number of similar phony websites. I just thought of sharing this message with other readers that they would need to exercise a heightened caution whilst transacting on their bank accounts online. Also, it takes a minute to report any such phishing email to your bank internet department so that this menace can be controlled quickly.
Here I would summarize a few email addresses to which you would need to report the full phishing email so that the internet banking team of the bank can bring such websites down.
- Axis Bank: ibrm.co@axisbank.com (or) ibrm@axisbank.com
- ICICI Bank: executivedirector@icicibank.com
- HDFC Bank: fake.email@hdfcbank.com (and) support@hdfcbank.com
- Citibank: indiaservice@citigroup.com
- Canara Bank: cbgimb@canbank.co.in
- State Bank of India: report.phishing@sbi.co.in
