The Indian government has issued an advisory on ‘Best Practices’ that can be followed by smartphone users to stay safe online. - Always review the app details, number of downloads, user reviews, comments and "ADDITIONAL INFORMATION" section before downloading the app. Scammers often mask their identity by using email-to-text services to avoid revealing their actual phone number. Genuine SMS messages received from banks usually contain sender id (consisting of bank's short name) instead of a phone number in the sender information field. When in doubt, users can search for the organization's website directly using search engines to ensure that the websites they visited are legitimate.

Source: Mint September 19, 2022 01:46 UTC