CBE Ethiopian Commercial Bank, which suffered an unprecedented service shut down and huge revenue loss on Saturday, warned its customers today. Ethiopia is facing both financial and security challenges.
According to a statement by CBE, some fraudsters are trying to rob bank customers by offering them services to open closed accounts.
When CBE services were disrupted on Saturday, several account holders received messages that their accounts had been blocked. The bank today announced that it is conducting inquiries into these complaints.
Meanwhile fraudsters are contacting bank account holders, asking personal information including log in information from the customers. The scammers are demanding money for opening blocked accounts.
CBE Ethiopian Commercial Bank is warning account holders against sharing personal information and paying to anyone to get accounts unblocked.
On Saturday, CBE lost billions of Birrs after its systems were hit by a glitch which let customers make thousands of illegal money transfers. Yesterday the bank announced the formation of a task force to recover its losses.
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Naf ergime
It’s very painful for those who have a account saved their money in CBE. How can occur something like this one?
failure of the bank authorities. No one held accountable so far
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Maxamed Yusuf d
Ok thank you for your greatest warning to us in order to protect our money , and lastly I transfer my own birr from cbe to my own coop account and that birr is in frozen account until today . And what I shall do please check and response my birr to me .
Did u contact bank authorities?
Mujahid Ala Moahammed
Wow it’s great bank
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