Overview
- DSGV reports a marked rise in fraudulent emails, texts, and phone calls posing as Sparkasse during the pre-Christmas period.
- Scam messages reference inbox notices, security maintenance, or pushTAN updates and direct recipients to phishing sites that capture online-banking credentials.
- Perpetrators often place caller ID–spoofed follow-up calls to obtain TANs or approve devices and finalize unauthorized transfers.
- The BSI outlines warning signs such as urgent language, threats, requests for confidential data, and embedded links or forms.
- National reports frame the warnings as relevant to millions of Sparkassen customers across Germany.