The State Bank of India (SBI) has warned it customers against KYC (Know Your Customer) fraud. India's largest public lender has issued an alert and asked its customers report such matters to cybercrime. It said KYC fraud has spread like wildfire across the country and one should avoid clicking on link sent by someone posing as SBI's representative to ensure that they are not tricked into losing their hard-earned money to such fraudsters.  

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Speaking about KYC fraud modus-operandi, the SBI said the cybercriminal send a text message to a random number asking the user to update their KYC by clicking on a link sent in the message. It said many SBI customers and non-customers have received such links and hence one should ignore such messages and report the matter to the authorities concerned.  

www.cybercrime.gov.in when they come across such messages.