According to the Cybersecurity Center, the fraud campaign has already caused financial losses to the victims. This week, Traficom’s Cyber Security Center has received a lot of notifications about a new type of scam, in which the recipient of the text message is enticed to transfer the rent money to criminals. This is explained in the bulletin. Criminals who send scam text messages commonly appear as “House company”. Scams also circulate in the names of several different rental housing companies.
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The Katala rental scam is spreading: Beware of this kind of message
