Bank of Maldives (BML) has said it received information of a phishing scam where fraudulent SMS  under the company’s name were being sent from various numbers.

Bank confirmed the following via twitter. The bank hashtag-ed #Samaaluvey! in the following and requested customer of fraudsters using spoofed numbers to send SMS with external links.

Previously, BML has also warned the public against increasing frauds and scams that are being carried out under various pretense.

The bank said that the number of such cases reported to the bank is is increasing everyday and that some fraudsters call from mobile phones or masked numbers pretending to be an old friend or a supply service company in order to swindle unsuspecting victims out of money.