Fraud, Police | Warns against fraud: – Posing as the police

On Wednesday evening, Innlandet police district reports that there has been increased activity in fraud or attempted fraud in recent days.

– The perpetrator makes contact by phone and pretends to be employed by the police or a bank, the police say.

Furthermore, they explain that the victim is often told that one or more accounts have been attempted to be defrauded, or that someone has tried to take out a loan using the victim’s identity.

– In several cases, the victim has, as a result, transferred sums of money to a “safe” account that the perpetrator provides, or shared sensitive account information with the perpetrator, the police explain.

The police and banks do not act in this way.

– We therefore ask the public to be very restrained in sharing personal information, possibly at short notice to transfer large or small sums of money to unknown account numbers, urges the police.

The phenomenon is often referred to as spoofing.

Spoofing is a technique that allows fraudsters to pretend to contact you from a Norwegian number or secure IP address, according to the police.

– To carry out phone spoofing, the fraudsters use software that masks the original number they are calling from. As a result, the call can look like it is coming from a Norwegian number, which often inspires more trust than foreign numbers. Fraudsters who practice spoofing use both existing and fake phone numbers, the police write about the phenomenon.

If your number should be spoofed, it does not mean that your mobile has been hacked.

If you are unsure whether it is from the police, you can contact the police on 02800.

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