ICICI Bank Limited ICICI Bank Towers Bandra Kurla Complex Mumbai 400 051 News Release June 08, 2004
STATEMENT FROM ICICI BANK
Recently, there has been a heightened incidence of fraudulent e-maiIs across the world, which coax bank customers to reveal personal financial details such as account passwords in order to obtain sensitive customer information to commit fraud at a later date. In line with the global banking practice of routinely informing customers to refrain from responding to such e-mails, ICICI Bank has today issued an email to its customers to advise them not to respond to any such e-mails and report any such incidence to its round-the-clock phone-banking channel. In the interest of security, customers need to be aware that banks do not ask them for sensitive account information through e-mail or phone channels. Customers should not send or furnish personal and financial sensitive information in response to such e-mails/calls. For ICICI Bank, customer safety and security are of utmost importance. ICICI Bank has provided information on its website to educate customers on protecting their passwords and on reporting/informing ICICI Bank through the call center or through customer care e-mail in case of such fraudulent e-mails.
Except for the historical information contained herein, statements in this release, which contain words or phrases such as 'will', 'would', etc., and similar expressions or variations of such expressions may constitute 'forward-looking statements'. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those suggested by the forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to our ability to obtain statutory and regulatory approvals and to successfully implement our strategy, future levels of nonperforming loans, our growth and expansion in business, the adequacy of our allowance for credit losses, technological implementation and changes, the actual growth in demand for banking products and services, investment income, cash flow projections, our exposure to market risks as well as other risks detailed in the reports filed by us with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. ICICI Bank undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date thereof.
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