The Cybersecurity Institute warns of a marketing campaign that asserts the suspension of well being playing cards

A cellular well being card. Europa Press

The Incibe has detected a marketing campaign that impersonates Social Security by sending fraudulent SMS (smishing) that urge the person to click on on the hyperlink that accompanies the message The message is meant to make the recipient consider that it’s for the sending of a brand new well being card an amount of cash should be paid for the transport of this by way of the Post Office The fraudulent kind additionally requests the identify, surname, date of beginning, metropolis and e-mail

The National Institute of Cybersecurity (Incibe) has alerted this Tuesday that it has detected a marketing campaign that supplants Social Security by sending fraudulent SMS (smishing) that urge the person to click on on the hyperlink that accompanies the message, utilizing as excuse having to request a brand new well being card, for the reason that earlier one has been suspended.

The technological middle specifies that as a way to ship a brand new well being card, an amount of cash is requested to be paid for the transport of this card by way of the Post Office or DHL.

Once the person enters the URL connected to the SMS, a web site might be seen pretending to be from the Ministry of Employment and Social Security, wherein he finds a kind requesting final identify, first identify, date of beginning and e-mail, and after filling these information you might be requested to click on verify and also you go to a brand new kind.

Said kind reveals an internet web page wherein the identify, surname, date of beginning, metropolis and e-mail are requested in a kind.

The expertise middle based mostly in León recommends those that have acquired the aforementioned SMS however haven’t clicked on the hyperlink to delete it from the inbox, and if they’ve finished so and offered their private and financial institution particulars to contact their financial institution to clarify what occurred and to proceed to cancel the quantity and block the cardboard used within the fee.