A fraudulent email is currently putting ING and Sparkasse customers at risk of losing a lot of money. The phishing email has been in circulation since the end of January and works for customers of the two banks in almost the same, rather insidious way.

Scam emails put pressure on customers - this is where the danger lurks. In this way, the perpetrators obtain the consumers' login data, which they then use for real online banking. The impersonal salutation also clearly indicates phishing. A legitimate email from a bank would “never ask you to disclose data via a link”