On Wednesday morning, several police districts report fake text messages that appear to be from the police. The messages say that you have received a message from the police and that it is urgent to log in. The recipient is asked to log in with their phone number and bank ID. “This is fraud. Do not reply to the message, and do not click on the link”, is the clear message from the police. As far as news knows, people all over the country have received fraud reports. Almost all police districts have warned about the attempted fraud on Twitter/X. – The police will not send out messages where people are asked to click on a link and log in, says operations manager Einride Halse at the police in Finnmark. Nkom: – Known tactics West police district has received 25-30 messages from residents in the morning hours. – Do not click on the link. Ignore it, says operations manager Steinar Hausvik at the West police district. The police are increasingly being used in these types of fraud attempts. Where both SMS and calls pretend to be from the emergency services. – If the public is in doubt, they must contact the police, says Hausvik. Senior advisor Johannes Vallesverd in Nkom says they are in dialogue with the Norwegian Police Directorate to limit the attempted fraud. Photo: National Communications Authority – It is a well-known tactic that international criminals use well-known company or agency names in their fraud attempts. This is according to senior adviser Johannes Vallesverd in the National Communications Authority (Nkom). – In that way, you abuse the trust these institutions have. The purpose is clearly to get people to click on the link, to get them to give up information that makes it possible to scam them out of money. Working to limit fraud attempts Vallesverd is the leader of a new expert group against digital fraud, consisting of Nkom, Økokrim, providers and Finans Norge. He states that they are in dialogue with the expert group and the Norwegian Police Directorate about measures to limit the actual fraud attempt. The expert group will look at further measures to limit the opportunities criminals have to carry out fraud attempts through electronic communication. Norwegian telecommunications companies have stopped over 100 million fraudulent calls annually, according to Nkom. But criminals are constantly developing new methods, and this creates challenges. – What we are concretely doing now is to look at vulnerabilities and possible measures within the voice and SMS services. We are now seeing an increase in SMS fraud, including the use of a textual sender ID rather than a numerical address.
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Warns of fraudulent text messages that appear to be from the police – news Troms and Finnmark
