Protect yourself from Identity theft. Shinhan Finance can help

Identity theft is a form of scam when fraudsters gain financial benefits by impersonating another person or organization. The stolen identity information includes personal documents. Fraudsters can steal identity information in a variety of ways and use them for loan application under your identity.

Recently, the media also has a series of warning about the "service" of counterfeiting papers for loan application and publicly on social networking sites. Identity theft victims do not know their personal information is being used until they receive a payment request from debt collectors for overdue debts that are not theirs.

This article focuses on the risks of documents theft such as identity card, driving license, household registration book, etc... and recommends preventive measures.

How are identities stolen?

One of the reasons is carelessness in preserving identity documents, such as leaving documents publicly, not properly destroying documents containing identifying information, and losing documents.

Offers to participate in game online that require logging in with a social account and password or a personal email are also a common way that scammers use to gain control of social accounts or email, from which there are personal information and image of identity documents that you have ever exchanged on these media.

In recent years, the banking and financial field has developed strongly with the strategy of promoting digitalization, and fraudsters have taken advantage of its to collect illegally customers’ identity information. If customer is not awake by attractive offers such as “quick disbursement within 5 minutes”, it is easy to provide personal image and identity to fake website.

How to guard against Identity thief?

To be able to protect themselves from identity theft, Shinhan Finance encourages customers to regularly apply these following habits:

• Do not leave personal identification in an area accessible by others, even at home or office.
• Destroy documents that you no longer use by shredding or placing them in the shredder.
• Lock your mailboxes at home carefully and update new address to your financial institutions as soon as you have changing.
• Protect your computer and smartphone with strong, up-to-date security software.
• Protect your social account and personal email in the security measures.
• Do not provide personal information or identity documents to “get reward” if you have not signed up for the activity.
• Only make online purchasing on the reputable e-commerce sites.

When it comes to loan application, picking the right lender

Dealing with a legitimate and reputable financial company will prevent most problems. Always research lenders you are considering and read both official information and customer reviews. Reputable financial companies always publish all information and loan terms publicly and transparently on their websites and official social networking sites.

Shinhan Finance is a consumer finance company and all products and loan application can be found at our website www.shinhanfinance.com.vn; Facebook account: https://www.facebook.com/shinhanfinance.official; Zalo account: https://bit.ly/ShinhanFinance-Zalo-official.

In addition, Shinhan Finance also provides preferential information, promotions and transaction confirmation to customers from the official email [email protected] ; [email protected] and messages from "SVFC" account.

In addition, when it comes to loan need, customers can feel secure to download iShinhan application and register for Shinhan Finance personal loan and quick loan product – for more detail at https://www.shinhanfinance.com.vn/vay-tien-nhanh-online/.

Contact us for help

If you have any doubts about the risk of identity theft that related to Shinhan Finance, please contact us via one of the following channels:

• Hotline: 1900 5454 49
• Email: [email protected]
• Zalo: https://bit.ly/ShinhanFinance-Zalo-official
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shinhanfinance.official