Fraudulent SMS: "Your registration is about to expire"
Scammers are currently sending fraudulent SMS messages claiming that the "registration" for George or s Identity is about to expire and needs to be "renewed" or "updated".
These scammers are using fake login pages to gain access to your internet banking. However, there is no time limit on your use of George or s Identity. Therefore, do not click on the links sent to you and simply ignore these SMS messages.
How can you protect yourself from this scam?
Never enter confidential financial data on unknown websites. If you look closely, you can already tell from the URLs in the example that these are fake sites.
You can recognise our internet banking George by the domain "[...].sparkasse.at/[...] in the URL. How to recognise fraudulent links is explained in detail here.
For each transaction, check precisely what you authorise in s Identity: What matters is not what someone claims on the phone or in a chat, but the information that s Identity shows you before signing.
If in doubt, cancel the process and contact our helpdesk.