mBank warns its clients against fraudsters impersonating friends and bank employees. According to the bank, two types of scams have recently become quite popular, including a BLIK one.

In the first scenario, fraudsters impersonating a friend try to extort money under the pretext of paying overdue bills, for this they ask the victims for a BLIK code.

In another scenario, fraudsters posing for the bank’s employees attempt to “block” a transfer from the victim’s account to an unknown recipient. The scammers ask users to install the application so that the transfer is blocked and in order to do so they send the link to the application via an SMS. In addition, they inform the victims that if they do not complete the installation, the bank will block their account. mBank echos that a bank employee will never ask you to install an application sent by an SMS and will not ask for the login and the password to the online banking website.