Her citizens’ attention regarding misleading telephone calls attracts the Region of Attica. In particular, incidents have been reported to the competent services, in which the callers appear as employees of the Attica Region, asking citizens to provide their personal data, with the ultimate goal of extorting money.
The complaints that have been reported – until now – to the competent services of the Attica Region, speak of alleged refund of withholding tax from invoices 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
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