Alert! "Phishing" Attacks "Phishing " is referred to online fraud techniques like criminals sending fraudulent e-mails which appear to be coming from trusted sites but in fact are sent to fool the internet users to collect and misuse their confidential personal and financial information. Please note National Bank of Oman never sends e-mails to ask for any confidential information from its customers. Another phisihing techniques used is to fake the SSL digital certificates (which are used for secure communication with e-commerce and online banking sites) to lull the victims into false sense of security and visit forged web sites. Remember your browser always automatically checks for the authenticity of the digital certificate of the web site before communication, if browser produces a alert message, Never continue. Go back and navigate to the site, as you would normally do. For more security tips click here