The Central Bank of Nigeria has warned bank customers to ignore text messages alleged to be from their banks asking them to disclose personal bank informations.
The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on Friday urged bank customers to be cautious of unknown individuals alerting them on the deactivation of their bank accounts due to incomplete registration for Bank Verification Number.
This is contained in a statement by Mr Ibrahim Mu’azu, Director Corporate Communications of the CBN posted on the apex bank’s website.
The statement gave example of the message as: “Dear customers, due to the new BVN policy of the CBN your account have been deactivated and to reactivate call….”
The statement also made it clear that neither the CBN nor their employees or agents would ever call bank customers or send e-mail/text messages requesting for passwords, card details or Personal Identification Number.
It, however, advised bank customers to personally visit their banks for any issue requiring disclosure of personal bank details.
