The Andorran Social Security Fund (CASS) I’ve been suffering from one for two days fraudulent text message campaign that impersonate you to obtain personal data. The scam attempts started on Monday and continued yesterday, with SMS sent both from Andorran phone numbers as foreigners According to the CASS and the policeat the moment there is no affected person, although the police do not rule out future complaints.
The messages use different arguments to get users to access fraudulent links. In the first case, detected on Monday, thesms it warned of an alleged expiry of the health card and offered a link to consult the renewal procedure. tuesdayinsteadand, the messages communicated to recipients who had “a pending refund” and invited them to claim it through another link. In both cases, the communications were passed off as notices from the Social Security
Messages are sent from Andorran and foreign phones
The parapublic he again publicly warned of the situation after finding that the messages continued to circulate. The organization has explained that it works together with Andorra Telecom for block web addresses to which the links included in the redirect sms. The aim is to prevent recipients from accessing pages that present themselves as official channels of the CASS without being
Faced with these impersonation attempts, the organization calls on citizens to take extreme precautions and check the sender before relying on any communication received through this channel. In particular, it recommends being wary of numbers that don’t appear identified as a CASS and remember to never ask for personal data via text messages.
The recommendation for people who receive any of these sms is not to click on the links, not to respond to the message or provide any personal information. The CASS it also advises to immediately delete suspicious communications and, in case of doubt about their authenticity, to contact the organization directly through official channels.
The Social Security has thanked the collaboration of the people who have alerted the reception of the messagesinformation that has made it possible to identify new fraud attempts.
