{"id":203670,"date":"2017-03-22T08:46:13","date_gmt":"2017-03-22T06:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=203670"},"modified":"2017-03-22T08:49:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T06:49:04","slug":"warning-fnb-account-deactivation-emails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/203670-warning-fnb-account-deactivation-emails.html","title":{"rendered":"Warning &#8211; FNB account deactivation emails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FNB is warning customers about a new scam which involves them receiving an email stating\u00a0their online banking access will be disabled or deactivated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In an attempt to obtain your personal details, you will be requested to select a link in the email to confirm that you did not request your account to be deactivated,&#8221; said FNB.<\/p>\n<p>When users select the link, they are\u00a0presented with a screen requesting personal information. This will allow fraudsters to access their banking profile.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;FNB will never ask for your username, password, PIN, or OTP in an email, SMS, or phone call.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bank advised customers to never\u00a0select a link to its website which was sent via email.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/FNB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-203674 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/FNB.jpg\" alt=\"FNB\" width=\"600\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/FNB.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/FNB-535x400.jpg 535w, https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/FNB-575x430.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/banking\/201774-warning-about-atm-card-swapping-fraud-in-south-africa.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Warning about ATM card swapping fraud in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FNB is warning customers about a new scam which involves them receiving an email stating their online banking access will be disabled or deactivated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":142910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10106],"tags":[42090,1313],"class_list":["post-203670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking","tag-account-deactivation","tag-fnb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203670"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203676,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203670\/revisions\/203676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}