Criminals use the address “Kanta.fi” in a place where Kela does not use it. If you don’t recognize the difference, it can be confusing.
The official web address of the Omakanta service is kanta.fi. However, Omakanta, not Kanta.fi, appears as the sender of the service’s genuine text messages. Ismo Pekkarinen
Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom’s Cybersecurity Center warns of scam messages circulating in the name of Omakanna. If you receive a text message whose sender is shown as “Kanta.fi” or “kanta.fi”, the sender is not really Kela’s own company, but a scammer.
When it comes to text messages, “Kanta.fi” is not a genuine sender ID, and messages sent with the ID should not be trusted.
Appears as the sender of genuine Omakanta messages OmaKantaand genuine posts do not contain links to sites.
Although Kanta.fi is the sender ID used by scammers for text messages, it is nevertheless a genuine and secure Omakanta website address.
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There are scams in the name of Omakanta, both via text messages and e-mails. The sender ID of the fraudulent text messages has been, for example, “Kanta.fi”. Cyber Security Center
Avoid search engines, prefer to write the address yourself
Services that require identification should not be accessed via Google or another search engine, and especially not by clicking on a link in a text message or e-mail.
If you mistakenly log into a scam website with online banking credentials, the credentials end up in the possession of criminals and the account is deleted.
In search engines, the danger is related to manipulated search results. Criminals are able to flood the top positions of search results with links to scam pages by buying search engine visibility for the sites when searching with certain search terms. Manipulation of search results has also been encountered in Finland, and in the cases Omakanna’s name has been used, among other things.
Banks, the police and other authorities instruct you to go to an online bank, for example, by entering the bank’s official address in the address field of your web browser. A secure, self-entered address can be saved in the browser’s bookmarks for later use.