EPFO Alert: Employees’ Provident Fund Organization (EPFO) has issued an alert for all its users. EPFO has asked all its members that no account holder should share the information related to the account on social media even by mistake.
Due to this, account holders can get caught in big frauds. If the information about the EPF account is in the hands of fraudsters, then they can take away your earnings from your account. While issuing an alert, EPFO has said that EPFO never asks for the information of Aadhaar, PAN, UAN, bank details from its member.
In such a situation, if someone asks you for such information on phone or social media, then be careful and do not share it at all. Do not respond to such fraudulent phone calls or reply to any such messages. EPFO gave information Issuing an alert for all its users, EPFO wrote in a tweet, ‘Never ask its members to share personal details like Aadhaar, PAN, UAN, Bank Account or OTP over phone or social media.
EPFO further states, EPFO never asks to deposit any amount through WhatsApp, social media etc. for any service. Phishing online fraud It is worth noting that people’s big earnings are deposited in the PF account, which people deposit for retirement expenses. Fraudsters know very well that here they will get a big amount in one stroke, so they attack the account through phishing attack.
Actually, phishing is part of online fraud in which the depositor is tricked, the necessary information related to the account is obtained from them and then the account is cleared.
