Crime|According to the police, there are several perpetrators of fraud in the name of Traficom.
From citizens more than half a million euros were defrauded in September in the name of the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency (Traficom), says the Police Department of Internal Finland in its press release.
According to the release, various frauds committed in the name of Traficom have already been visible during the summer, but the number has increased in the fall.
In September, the police registered 39 criminal cases in which interested parties were misled or attempted to be misled by contacts made in the name of the Finnish Transport and Communications Agency. The combined criminal benefit of the cases in September was more than 560,000 euros.
In September, the police received six reports of similar cases that remained companies. In the four cases reported to the police, no financial damage was caused.
Criminal District Commissioner Sakari Tuominen says in the announcement that there are several implementation methods. Although the actions may seem similar at first, there are several factors involved.
The criminal has the opportunity to view the victim’s account if he clicks on the link in the scam message and logs into the opening website with his bank credentials. Often the victim then receives a phone call in which the fraudster pretends to be a representative of the bank.
“The owner can have the account access rights of several people under his control, and with one bank ID entered in the wrong place, criminals can manage to empty all these accounts,” Tuominen says in the announcement.
Police calls for special care in the use of bank codes.
If you suspect that the person posing as the bank’s representative is not who they claim to be, the police advise you to hang up and call the bank’s service number yourself.
The person posing as an official can be asked to repeat his name. After that, you can call the authority switchboard and ask to be connected to the person in question.
The police remind us that a mobile certificate is the safest way to log in to services other than the bank. The police urges a critical approach to sites where a mobile certificate is not an option.
“If you log into a fake website with bank credentials instead of the real one, the scammer is likely to monitor your screen and see the information you enter and can copy it,” the release says.
If you get scammed, the police advises you to contact your bank and file a criminal report. Fraud attempts should also be reported to the police.
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