Recognising fraud
Learn to recognise different types of fraud.
Preventing fraud is something we need to work on together. As a bank, we block fake emails and transactions by scammers. We tell our clients about the safest ways to do their banking, and we provide tools to make banking more secure. But there are also things you can do yourself to prevent fraud, such as sticking to the security rules and using our security tools. These are good ways to protect your money even better.
Just imagine: one fake phone call and your savings are gone! It happens more often than you think. To make sure you don’t fall victim to a scam and lose your savings, use the free Savings Lock and keep control of your savings account. The best way to protect you and your savings even better.
Imagine that someone gets in touch with you on WhatsApp and pretends to be a friend or relative. They ask you to transfer some money quickly. If you accidentally fall for this scam, you can limit the damage by ensuring that your daily limit isn’t set too high. Only raise your daily limit temporarily if you need to transfer a large sum of money.
You’re sitting on the sofa chilling and your phone pings. It’s a push notification from the app. Money has just been transferred from your account. If you don’t recognise the transaction, you can take action right away. You could block your account, for example, to prevent scammers from taking even more money from you.
ABN AMRO has joined forces with other banks and the Dutch consumer’s association to draw up five rules for secure banking. Sticking to these security rules is the best possible way to protect your money from scammers.
If you don’t use the ABN AMRO app for five minutes, you’ll be automatically logged out. This is one way we help you to bank securely. But you must be careful about how you use your device and personal data too.
We do our utmost to ensure that you can bank securely. For instance, all data in Internet Banking is encrypted and transmitted via a secure connection. Use the QR scanner in the ABN AMRO app to log in to Internet Banking securely..
