swirl. The Romanian tax office today launched an extremely important warning for all citizens of the country, and regardless of whether you know that you owe the authorities or not, you must know about this alert. More precisely, ANAF published today an alert by which it wants to inform the citizens of Romania about frauds that are committed by email, or SMS, in relation to money that they should receive from the authorities, although everything is just a trick.
swirl. People who receive such messages are sent to access a website where a form is presented where they are asked to provide their identification data, bank account data, and the CVV2 code from the card. You can see in the image below what this fraud perpetrated against Romanian citizens looks like, the website itself does indeed have the ANAF logo, but otherwise it is something very simple, hosted on Microsoft's servers.
ANAF. WARNING for ALL Romanian Citizens
swirl. Considering the way this website was created, it is easy to understand why people can be tricked into giving their data, but they must be very naive people, who also have bank cards capable of making online payments. Since ANAF has issued a warning like this, it is possible that some people have fallen into the hacker's net out of the desire to get some money that they should never have received, and everyone must be extremely careful. attention
swirl. Normally, the tax authorities in Romania make communications to taxpayers only through physical documents, for legal reasons, so you should never receive anything from them via SMS. Moreover, you should never enter your card data in websites you do not know, whether the ANAF logo appears in it, or that of any other authority in Romania, because they may be behind it only hackers.
swirl. If there will be people deceived by this fraud, only the banks can offer help to recover the money, together with the police, to whom complaints for theft or fraud must be registered.
