Bank Muscat urges customers to follow secure banking tips

Times News Service MUSCAT: Bank Muscat, the Sultanate’s biggest bank, as part of its commitment to ensure the highest levels of security for banking transactions, has urged customers to follow secure banking tips frequently communicated through various channels.

Personal identity number

Bank Muscat reiterated that customers should always exercise caution and must never divulge their password or personal identity number (PIN) linked to cards, online banking or any other service. The bank under no circumstance asks customers to provide their password or PIN and also does not contact cus- tomers by phone or e-mail asking them to change their account information and log-in details, said a bank release.

Bancassurance purchase

Bank Muscat also never asks customers to provide their full 16 digit account number and instead requests to only confirm the last 8 digits of their account number for certain transactions like purchase of bancassurance products through the bank’s telemarketing sales channel.

As part of the bank’s innovative marketing and sales initiative, a telemarketing campaign is under way to promote bespoke insurance products in association with a leading international insurance company.

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