Zip it! That’s the advice of a police chief if you want to keep your bank account in check … and that’s not just your purse, wallet or card holder, your mouth too!
Hidd Police Station head Colonel Dr Osama Bahar has urged people not to trust anybody with their Personal Identification Number (PIN) no matter who it is, and to change it should they have already let the information slip out.
The warning comes as officers deal with a growing number of consumers who have discovered money withdrawn from their accounts without authorisation.
Col Dr Bahar yesterday spoke on the Interior Ministry’s Al Aman programme on social media, where he cited an incident involving a Bahraini victim who lost a sizable chunk of his money.
“A citizen filed a case stating that several amounts of money had been withdrawn from his bank card at different locations across Bahrain,” he said. “In total, he lost around BD1,000. The surprising part for him was that the card was still in his wallet, it was never stolen.
“This raises the question, who would the suspect even be in this case? It is not easy to find out.”
In order to prevent this incident from occurring, Col Dr Bahar stated that people should keep their PIN strictly confidential and never share it with anybody, no matter who it is.
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