Agder police district has received three calls on Wednesday evening where people in the Arendal area have been called from someone claiming to be from the police, and who is calling in connection with banking problems.
– These are obvious attempts at fraud as neither the bank nor the police will call anyone and ask for personal information, the police write on X.
– Call it a classic, says operations manager Knut Odde in the Agder police district to DinSide.
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The next step in the rocket is to get some sensitive information out of the people who are called, he says.
– But fortunately people have not gone for the glue stick. In one case, the person in question had asked for documentation that the police had really called, but then the person on the other end had simply hung up.
The operations manager says that the fraudsters like to use the phone numbers of completely innocent and ignorant people. That is, the fraudsters make it look like they are calling from this number, but are actually calling from a completely different one.
– The right thing to do is hang up and block the number, says Odde.
– I have no idea
Fraudsters have also been on the phone to Kristiansand on Wednesday evening, with a slightly different approach.
– There was someone who pretended to be from a company, and who called about some package collection, and who sent a link. The person had accessed this link and lost some money, says Odde.
– There are a lot of opportunities to be defrauded and deceived, so the advice is to be incredibly skeptical of actors who cannot be verified. If you receive something from Posten or other parcel suppliers, but know that you have not ordered a parcel, then it is fraud.
However, the operations manager is aware that it can be difficult not to fall into the trap, as the methods are becoming increasingly cunning and comprehensive.
– I myself know people who are extremely upbeat, but perhaps a little stressed, and who have gone on a rampage, he says.
2024-02-07 20:25:43
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