TalkScams Team · Educational guide · Reviewed 2026-11-07
Entered your password on a fake bank website? Immediate steps
If a bank login was entered into a suspected phishing site, act quickly through official banking channels. Password changes and account monitoring are more urgent than buying an optional product.
What to do now
- Do not sign in through the suspicious link again. Open your bank app yourself or type the bank address you independently know.
- Contact the bank fraud department using a trusted phone number and explain which information was entered. Follow its account-lock or card-replacement guidance.
- If you can safely sign in, change the affected password and any reused passwords. Turn on multifactor authentication and review recent transactions.
Follow-up checks and reporting
- Preserve the phishing message and website address without forwarding personal credentials to other people.
- Watch for unauthorized transfers and new payees; report anything unexpected to the bank promptly and ask about its dispute process.
- Report the attempt to your official national fraud reporting service. If account access was lost, use the bank’s official account recovery pathway.
Watch for a follow-up scam
- Someone asks you to move money to a so-called safe account.
- A follow-up caller asks for one-time security codes or remote access.
Original source: FTC — What To Do if You Were Scammed
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