Another email is circulating in which the Federal Public Service (FPS) Finance promises the recipient a financial Covid grant. These are false e-mails, the FPS emphasizes. “We are inundated with phishing attempts every day,” said spokesman Francis Adyns.
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“Dear citizens of the Kingdom of Belgium, in the context of the fight against Covid-19, the Minister of Finance has decided to take exceptional and temporary tax measures in view of the urgency and seriousness of the situation for the population.”
This is how the fake mail that has landed in numerous mailboxes in recent days. This is not a real concession, but a fake email from people with bad intentions to get your data. This confirms Francis Adyns, spokesman for the FPS Finance. “We are informed and the mail is passed on as always Safe on web and will be followed up further. “
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During the corona crisis, it is a daily occurrence that phishing emails end up in mailboxes. “We are inundated with it. People with bad intentions make even more attempts during the corona crisis, via email, SMS and WhatsApp. On our website we have a page where we give people tips on how to spot those fake emails, so that they don’t get into trouble by clicking on them. ”
You can find those tips here. “There are things where you can see that these are false messages,” says Adyns. “For example, a real government service or bank will never ask you to provide payment details or account numbers via e-mail.” Other things to pay attention to: look at the e-mail address of the sender and make sure that the story in the e-mail as in the example above is not too good to be true, that there are not too many spelling mistakes and that the tone is not is too pushy.
Anyone who receives a suspicious email is encouraged to report it on this site.
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