CyTA gets phishing experience
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Cyprus Telecommunications Authority, or CyTA in short, recently received a first-hand experience of phishing scams when fraudsters targeted its customers with the scam. The scam was introduced to the company when several of its customers complained of receiving phishy messages on their online mailboxes.
The messages tried to impersonate official CyTA communications by signing off as ‘CYTANET Web Media’. The emails were devised to fool Cytanet customers into giving away their account access codes so the fraudsters could have a field day using their identities.
In a fit of performance anxiety perhaps, fraudsters provide not one, but three reasons for the appearance of the untimely email. Apart from presenting the customary cover of a routine-maintenance-call, they also build bait for the recipients by offering them free account upgradation, exploiting in this manner the aspirations of receiving improved facilities and better performances, harbored by them.
The fraudsters show some gall by giving as the third reason, an offer by the company to bolster the customer’s account security against, of all things, phishing scams.
Customers of Cytanet are urged not to pay any heed to the latest antics of phishing scammers. They should not, under any circumstance, reply to the email with their confidential account codes. They would do well, in fact, to delete the email at first notice and thus shut the door on the face of the fraudsters.
For more information, users can contact the Cytanet call centre at 8000 8080.
Source: Famagusta-Gazette.com
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