To deepen young people’s understanding of banking transactions and the protection of personal information, Saudi banks organized—as part of the activities of their mobile awareness center on financial and banking fraud—a special awareness event and an educational program for children, which included a number of tips and instructions tailored to the level of understanding of children aged 4 to 11, with the aim of encouraging them to exercise greater caution and care in not disclosing their personal information, or their families« information to strangers or unknown individuals—such as their home address, phone number, family members» names, and other important personal details that a stranger or unknown person could exploit to harm the child or a family member. This event, held at the Panorama Mall in Riyadh, is part of the Saudi Banks« sixth »Don’t Share It” campaign, which was launched last month to raise awareness about financial fraud and ways to prevent it, as well as the importance of maintaining the confidentiality of customers’ personal and banking data. Similar events are expected to be held in shopping malls in other cities across the Kingdom to further the goals of the awareness campaign. Talaat Hafez, Secretary-General of the Banking Media and Awareness Committee, said: “This event is one of the initiatives launched by Saudi banks to reach out to children, with the aim of starting early to educate them and raise their awareness of the importance of keeping personal information confidential, and not to disclose it to strangers, in order to counter certain deceptive tactics through which fraudsters seek to exploit children’s innocence to obtain information about their parents.”








