{"id":54016,"date":"2019-07-30T13:00:47","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/blog\/?p=54016"},"modified":"2019-07-30T13:00:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T08:00:47","slug":"sbp-warns-against-providing-account-info-to-unverified-callers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-warns-against-providing-account-info-to-unverified-callers.html","title":{"rendered":"SBP warns against providing account info to unverified callers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has issued another public service message in which it has asked citizens to stop sharing personal information with unverified callers \u2013 a news source reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement issued by the central bank, several impersonators are involved in attempts to defraud the bank customers, since these individuals can mask the official helpline or registered number of the financial institution concerned.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-plans-to-issue-digital-currency-by-2025.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SBP plans to issue digital currency by 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These people (impersonating SBP officials, army officers, or representatives of the superior courts) make hoax calls as a ploy to obtain crucial information from the customers; including their account numbers, IDs, passwords, CNIC numbers, and other relevant details.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, in such instances, the SBP has further advised the general public to contact the designated branches on registered helplines instead of revealing such vital information to these fake callers.<\/p>\n<p>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-to-establish-facilitation-desk-for-foreign-exchange-remittances.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">SBP to establish facilitation desk for foreign exchange, remittances<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The statement further notes that neither SBP nor any other banks conducts biometric verification of their customers through telephone calls. If someone receives any such call, he\/she should report the incident to the law enforcement agencies, or contact the SBP helpline at: 021-111-727-273.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has issued another public service message in which it has asked citizens to stop sharing personal information with unverified callers \u2013 a news source reported. According to a statement issued by the central bank, several impersonators are involved in attempts to defraud the bank customers, since these individuals can mask the official helpline or registered number of the financial institution concerned. Read:\u00a0SBP plans to issue digital currency by 2025 These people (impersonating SBP officials, army officers, or representatives of the superior courts) make hoax calls as a ploy to obtain crucial information from the customers; including their account numbers, IDs, passwords, CNIC numbers, and other relevant details. Moreover, in such instances, the SBP has further advised the general public to contact the designated branches on registered helplines instead of revealing such vital information to these fake callers. Read:\u00a0SBP to establish facilitation desk for foreign exchange, remittances The statement further notes that neither SBP nor any other banks conducts biometric verification of their customers through telephone calls. If someone receives any such call, he\/she should report the incident to the law enforcement agencies, or contact the SBP helpline at: 021-111-727-273.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":23688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[12424],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-sbp-warns-against-providing-account-info-to-unverified-callers"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SBP warns against providing account info to unverified callers - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has issued another public service message in which it has asked citizens to stop sharing personal information\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-warns-against-providing-account-info-to-unverified-callers.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SBP warns against providing account info to unverified callers - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has issued another public service message in which it has asked citizens to stop sharing personal information\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/sbp-warns-against-providing-account-info-to-unverified-callers.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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