Monaco's Ministry of Finance and Economy warns of phishing campaign targeting local banks

Monaco's Ministry of Finance and Economy issued an alert that a new banking phishing campaign is underway targeting banks in Monaco. The fraud uses emails, SMS and phone calls impersonating banks and payment service providers to direct recipients to fake websites that closely imitate online customer portals and capture confidential data such as usernames, passwords and payment card numbers. The ministry flagged common warning signs including alarmist or urgent language, requests for security codes or personal and banking information, spelling mistakes or altered logos, and links to web addresses that differ slightly from official sites. Recommended steps include not replying to suspected messages, verifying any request directly with the relevant organisation via trusted channels, reporting messages and senders as spam and deleting them, never sharing login credentials or confidential codes, avoiding links and attachments from doubtful messages, and checking the real sender address and link destination before taking any action.