{"id":12335,"date":"2021-06-13T04:04:40","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T22:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/?p=12335"},"modified":"2021-06-14T01:02:06","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T19:32:06","slug":"what-is-dopbnk-full-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apnaplan.com\/what-is-dopbnk-full-form\/","title":{"rendered":"What is DOPBNK Full Form \u2605 Which Bank SMS it?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

If you are reading this, chances are you have received SMS from DOPBNK<\/strong> and wondering who has sent this? What does this mean? Which bank has sent it? What should you do and if you should be worried?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DOPBNK Fullform<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Full form of DOPBank is \u201cDepartment of Post Bank\u201d. This essentially means Indian Post Payments Bank (IPBB) which was established in 2017 by Department of Postal Services.<\/strong> Indirectly this means the IPBB is owned by Government of India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is DOPBNK? Which bank sends the SMS?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As you can see the entity DOPBNK is a genuine one and essentially represents Indian Post Payments Bank (IPBB)<\/strong> owned by Department of Postal Services, Government of India. The question is if this is a genuine entity then why the fuss is about?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SMS from DOPBNK – Is there some fraud or scam?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The short answer is No.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You may receive the SMS from following IDs ID-DOPBNK, VD-DOPBNK, IM-DOPBNK, VK-DOPBNK, TD-DOPBNK<\/strong>, etc. In most cases there is no problem and people receive genuine message about their transaction with the Postal bank. However there has been cases where people have received messages like in the picture below even when they had no account with the bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n