A careful examination of the web address can in many cases reveal a scam. Bank IDs are often fished for behind certain types of links.
Payment card information or bank credentials are often fished behind the links sent by criminals. Adobe Stock
The Finnish Transport and Communications Agency Traficom’s Cybersecurity Center says in his weekly review of recent scams and attempted scams that have come to its attention.
It warns that criminals try to get access to Finns’ bank IDs using a variety of pretexts. Often, in the contacts, you are asked to act, for example, to solve a problem.
– An attempt is made to entice the recipient to go to a page owned by criminals via a link. With a package delivery disruption or problem in the online bank, an attempt is made to get the recipient to hand over their information on a scam website in an emergency, the Cyber Security Center states.
– You should avoid clicking on links in messages and instead do business with different parties through their websites.
If the message tells about a problem with the online bank, the Cybersecurity Center recommends not clicking on the link and logging into the online bank using, for example, a phone application.
Sites and links that seem genuine
The appearance of the scam sites has been copied from the genuine site very precisely.
– It is important to pay attention to the website address. The addresses of scam pages try to imitate real pages, but you can recognize the difference, the Cyber Security Center advises.
For example, one could try to imitate the genuine kyberturvalliskeskus.fi website with the kyberturvalliskeskus-fi.org address. There have also been soumi-fi.net-type links that try to imitate the genuine suomi.fi website.
Source: Cyber Security Center