Overview

• Current emails impersonate Sparkasse and claim customers must confirm or update an S‑ID‑Check, linking to fake pages that request online‑banking and card details.
• The Sparkassen‑Finanzgruppe’s Computer‑Notfallteam urges recipients to ignore and immediately delete the messages and to have online banking and cards blocked if information was shared.
• A parallel wave targets Volksbank customers with a prompt to update the SecureGo plus app via a link, warning of restricted access after a stated deadline, according to the Verbraucherzentrale.
• Tell‑tale signs include spoofed or misspelled sender addresses, links that do not lead to sparkasse.de, generic salutations, missing account details, and heavy pressure to act quickly.
• Data entered on the fraudulent sites can be used for unauthorized payments, and the pattern follows earlier campaigns that used threatening subject lines to push victims to counterfeit portals.