Warning: Phishing Alert

Hawaii National Bank is warning of a "phishing" scam bearing Hawaii National Bank’s name, and is reminding people who receive a fraudulent e-mail that they should not respond by clicking the fraudulent link to access a fraudulent web page.

Phishing is a federal crime where the perpetrators may send out thousands of fake, but authentic-looking, e-mails in an attempt to trick unsuspecting recipients into revealing their account numbers, passwords, Social Security numbers and other non-public personal information.

Hawaii National Bank does not send e-mail to its customers to ask them to submit personal information. Any such request should be viewed as highly suspicious and recipients should not respond or click on any of the links that appear in such e-mail. Bank management wants to stress that at no time were any Bank systems breached or compromised, nor has there been any inadvertent release of customer's non-public personal information by the Bank.

The bank is working with Internet security experts to shut down the fraudulent Web site and to stop the scam e-mails. Recipients of suspected fraudulent e-mail messages can forward them to abuse.hnb@hnbhawaii.com.