Police emphasize that the event was based on a scam and not a procedure in accordance with any authority.
The SMS directed to a site that instructed to transfer the funds in the account to the security account. Illustration. Karoliina Vuorenmäki
A person living in South Savo was cheated by SMS, reports Eastern Finland Police Department.
According to police, a private person received a text message from the sender of “Possoto Oy” on Saturday night on Saturday night. According to the message, the recipient should pay his debt in the event of a bailout.
There was a link in the message that still guided the person to a genuine but false bank site. The site instructed to transfer the funds in the account to the security account.
Police emphasize that the event was based on a scam and not a procedure in accordance with any authority.
According to the title of the bulletin, the SMS scam cost the victim over € 50,000. The event is being studied as a gross fraud.
The police again remind us that banks or authorities will never ask for bank information or IDs and should not be given to anyone. Similarly, the opening of some suspicious text messages or email links must be refrain from.
For example, the scam can be inferred from the fact that the phone number of the caller or the sender of the message is not visible, and that the need to transfer funds is rushed.