Furthermore, these scams often require urgent payments to be made to random third party accounts.ĬommBank urges you to please pause, reflect and review carefully before proceeding when considering any investment opportunity.

The links contained in the articles take you to a fake, non-CBA domain to complete the ‘Expression of Interest’ and register. This is then followed by an email/phone call to the individual in an attempt to convince them into transferring funds and start earning by investing in Crypto. Once completed, the scammers are asking individuals to register themselves using their Name, Email ID and Phone number. Scammers are using these articles to lure people into completing an ‘Expression of Interest’ form consisting of a few multiple choice questions. Scammers have recently published links on different social media sites/apps to fake articles exploiting CBA’s recently published move to integrate our Crypto trading platform into the Commbank app. Find out more about how to recognise hoaxes and what to do if you see one. Keeping your accounts safe is our priority. In this case the best thing you can do is hang up and call on an organisation’s officially listed phone number to verify the communication

Be aware that scams can also come via the telephone with people pretending to be from a reputable organisation who try and gain access to your computer, bank account and money.

Report suspicious emails or texts to then delete them straight after.

To be safe, always navigate directly to NetBank yourself and log on from the site you know to be genuine, rather than using any links in communications.

If you are ever unsure whether an email, message or phone call is legitimately from CommBank, please message us in the CommBank app, or visit us in a branch so we can assist you.

Remember, we'll never send you an email or SMS asking for banking information like your NetBank Client ID, password, or NetCode or include a link to login directly from an email or SMS.

The below emails and SMS messages, which have been reported, are not from CommBank and are not authorised by us.

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