Coronavirus-Spam: LKA warns of fake Bank Emails

The Central contact office of Cybercrime of the LKA in lower Saxony points to increased fraud attempts in connection with funding in the corona of a crisis. The should be aware of the receiver.

As the Central point of contact Cybercrime (ZAC) body communicates to the lower Saxony state office of criminal investigations, piling up presently fraudulent E-Mails with a thematic reference to the Coronavirus crisis. Specifically, it is alleged that the current Spam and fraud wave messages which were posted in a clearly threatening tone and wrong would moderately ends in the name of the Bank is out.

In the E-Mails will be asked to repay the funds. So far, the ZAC recorded at the Spam-Mails in the different Federal States, the following sender addresses:

  • corona-zuschuss@nbank.de.com
  • corona-zuschuss@nrw.de.com
  • corona-zuschuss@ib-sachsen-anhalt.de.com
  • corona-zuschuss@ifbhh.de.com
  • corona-zuschuss@l-bank.de.com
  • corona-zuschuss@stmwi-bayern.de.com
  • corona-zuschuss@aufbaubank.de.com
  • corona-zuschuss@hessen.de.com
  • corona-zuschuss@rlp.de.com

In the Annex to the E-mail PDF files to be filled in with personal information and sent back, and most of them.

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The LCA indicates that the recipient respond in any way on the messages and not data price should give.

The receipt of such a Phishing attempt, don’t be afraid! Should you be refunds due, or even a criminal offence given, would contact the competent authorities of the concerned subsidy recipient, not by the threat of E-Mail.

The fake Bank emails in a variety of scams that come in the Wake of the global pandemic new. So there was already, in the past, several Spam campaigns to a Coronavirus, part with Trojans and other Malware in the Appendix.