Rip-off telephone calls on the upward thrust

With fraudulent and malicious telephone calls, fraudsters try to defraud electorate with the intention to extract sums of cash!

The Police has recorded an build up in such incidents in contemporary days, which manifest in two primary techniques.

• Phone calls from basically Greek numbers, the place a recorded message is performed, in most cases in English, which allegedly comes from police government (of our nation but in addition in another country) and objectives to intercept non-public knowledge and information, with without equal objective of economic fraud.

• Phone calls from other folks impersonating accountants or representatives of dependable our bodies, comparable to EFKA, DEDDIE and so forth., the place beneath quite a lot of pretexts, such because the alleged go back of a amount of money or the cost of a related allowance (e.g. Marketplace Cross ), attempt to thieve financial institution main points [αριθμούς πιστωτικών-χρεωστικών καρτών, διαπιστευτήρια εισόδου σε λογαριασμούς ηλεκτρονικής τραπεζικής (e-banking)].

The Police recommends that electorate:

• Be particularly cautious when receiving such calls.

• By no means expose non-public or banking knowledge over the telephone.

• Don’t practice suspicious links (hyperlinks) that you just obtain after corresponding telephone calls.