Slovaks should be extremely careful. SMS messages, which are very dangerous and designed to rob you of money, have started to spread again. The latest wave you are noticed server pc.zoznam.sk, which also published a screenshot of such a report.
Fraudsters have one goal – to gain access to sensitive data and consequently to your money. It is more than understandable that most people immediately delete such messages or have a smartphone that can intelligently filter them out as spam. However, there are also many such people in Slovakia who are trustworthy, resp. inexperienced and flew into fraud.
Just look at yesterday’s story of a 69-year-old Humenčankawho sent € 6,200 to the “sailor”. An interview with employees of any of the banks reveals that people lose significant amounts of money every week, which they can no longer reach. The police are also briefly involved in such frauds.
What’s in the SMS?
The SMS message abuses the good business name of the delivery company DHL and GLS. “Your order is ready for delivery. Confirm delivery information. Follow the instructions here: * link *,“It is written in an SMS message. To someone waiting for a package, such a message may seem legitimate, and although the link itself looks suspicious, some people may not evaluate it.
“After opening the link, you will see the page of a courier company. In my case, it was the first GLS and after the second opening of DHL,” describes the testing process link server editor pc.zoznam.sk, Erik Šípoš.
The link will take you to a payment gateway where you have to pay customs duties in the amount of € 2. When you do so, the package will be released by the customs and it will be delivered to you. Of course, this is a scam that you should avoid by arc.
