In recent weeks, Norway Telenor has registered an increase in the number of cases of attempted fraud – primarily cases where the fraudster pretends to be the police. Illustration photo: Beate Oma Dahle / NTB Read more Close
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Nov 15 2023 14:42 – Updated Nov 15 2023 14:42
Last week, Telenor’s fraud filters in the mobile network caught more than 1.1 million unwanted calls. During a normal week, the number is around 400,000.
– We are now experiencing a very large wave of fraud, says senior security advisor Thorbjørn Busch at Telenor Norway in a press release.
He links the increase in the number of unwanted calls to an increase in cases of police fraud.
In recent weeks, the security department in Telenor has received a number of inquiries from customers who have been defrauded by someone pretending to be the police.
In some of the calls, customers are greeted by an automated voice that tells them in English that they are under investigation. In other cases, a person fluent in Norwegian can state that the customer has been defrauded, and that it is urgent to stop this.
In most cases, the fraudsters try to intimidate the caller into providing personal information – often BankID.
– The police will never, never, never ask you for your BankID. It is incredibly important that people understand and remember this, says police inspector and business liaison in the Oslo police district, Christina Rooth, in the press release.
2023-11-15 13:42:52
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