India Post Payments Bank too falls prey to phishing, PIB issues alert

Fake message warns IPPB customers that their bank accounts will be blocked if PAN card details are not updated

Hyderabad: The Press Information Bureau has clarified that the claim that accounts of customers of India Post Payments Bank will be blocked within 24 hours if PAN details are not updated is false. “India Post never sends such messages,” it posted on X recently.

Claim: The customer’s India Post Payments bank account will be blocked within 24 hours if their Pan card is not updated. #PIBFactCheck:

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❌ This claim is #Fake

➡️ @IndiaPostOffice never sends any such messages

➡️ Never share your personal & bank details with anyone pic.twitter.com/B7CEdp0g2f

— PIB Fact Check (@PIBFactCheck) January 4, 2025

The alert follows a phishing scam that’s targeting IPPB customers. The fake message warns IPPB customers that their bank accounts will be blocked if their PAN card details are not updated.

These messages contain a link prompting users to update their PAN details.

More recently cyberfraudsters targeted the Supreme Court of India, creating multiple URLs bearing resemblance to the SC’s website.

In a public notice, SC Registrar (Technology) Hargurvarinder Singh Jaggi, said, “The fake websites, impersonating the official website have been created and hosted on the uniform resource locator (URL).”

Any visitor on the above URLs was strongly advised not to share and divulge any personal and confidential information. “Please also note that the Supreme Court of India is the registered user of the domain name www.sci.gov.in and before clicking on any URL always hover over the URL to verify the same,” the notice said.