Judicial administration warns of “summons to court” sent to residents by fraudsters

As reported by the National Judicial Administration on Monday, in fraudulent SMS messages distributed under the guise of the court, fraudsters invite you to come to the court, but offer to search for more detailed information by clicking on the active link. After clicking on the link, the resident appears on a fake website used by fraudsters.

“Usually, the main goal of fraudsters is to extort personal data or obtain information related to your online banking,” the judicial administration says.

According to the report, the courts never send SMS messages with additional links to residents either on behalf of themselves or other institutions, do not ask for passwords or other confidential login data, nor do they ask for payment cards or other banking data.

“Usually, scammers’ SMS messages are sent using services provided by third parties, so scammers can send you an SMS message with any name of the sender. The received false SMS message contains a link not to the court’s website, but to other web addresses that may be visually similar to the web address of the court’s or other institution’s web site,” the report states.

The National Judicial Administration recommends not to click on links in suspicious SMS messages, and if you do, it is advised to close the opened browser window as soon as possible and not to enter any personal data in the opened browser window – personal code, internet bank identification code or payment card data.