Alert: Fraudulent Messages Circulating Using the Digital Mobile Key as Bait

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The Digital Mobile Key is one of the main means of authentication in digital public services in Portugal. However, its use can also be exploited by cybercriminals, who use fraudulent messages to try to obtain personal data and compromise the safety of victims. Fraudulent messages try to deceive users Phishing schemes use [...]

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Messages simulate legitimate CMD communications to induce citizens to click on links or provide data. Cybersecurity authorities follow the situation.

IOL Portugal

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These messages "can be presented as legitimate communications related to the Digital Mobile Key, seeking to convey confidence to the recipients and lead them to follow instructions or access links included in the text"

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ARTE points out that it never requests, by SMS, e-mail or telephone call "personal data or data relating to bank accounts".