Attica: “Bell” for fraudsters impersonating district employees

They are asking citizens to hand over their personal data

The Attica Region draws the attention of citizens regarding misleading phone calls. In particular, incidents have been reported to the competent services, in which the callers appear to be employees of the Attica Region, asking citizens to transmit their personal data, with the ultimate aim of extorting money.

The complaints that have been reported – until now – to the competent services of the Attica Region, refer to an alleged return of tax withheld from invoices that have been issued.

The Region of Attica underlines that under no circumstances are such calls made to any citizen and that this is an attempt at telephone fraud.

He calls the citizens:

Be extra careful, both with spam calls and spam text messages (sms), especially those asking them to give access to their bank account profile or other personal information.

Do not disclose personal data such as passwords and other sensitive information.

To contact the competent authorities and report the incident.

Citizens should know that the Department of Financial Management of the Attica Region always communicates with the public, without any exception, either by e-mail ([email protected], [email protected]), or by landline service numbers: 2132065033, 2132065034, 2132065036, 2132065129, 2132065815, 2132065817, 2132065816 and always mentioning the full name of the employee.

Source: RES-MPE