The police supercity South Hesse warns against a current wave of fake e-mail bills of the telephone companies Deutsche Telekom and Vodafone. Together with the alleged telephone account, an attachment is sent as usual. This, however, emerges as a banking Trojan, with which Kontodaten are spied. This is installed when you click on the attachment or a link in the mail.
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The attachments have different file extensions such as DOC, PDF, XLS or ZIP. Also a variant of the malicious e-mails without attachment, but with a download link on the banking Trojan are in circulation. In addition to the account data, a TAN number is requested via a fake security query.
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This feature should make a user suspicious immediately - with correct telephone bills, something like this does not happen. In addition, a more accurate check on the appearance of the invoice could help the customer to make sure that he receives invoices at unusual times or several times.
As reported by the police department Darmstadt on Tuesday, 29 cases were reported last month alone with a total loss of more than 230,000 euros.
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