The scams continue to multiply in Luxembourg. In his bulletin, the Grand Ducal police indicate that many people have been contacted in recent days by so-called banking or Luxrust employees, informing them that they had been victims of a cybrescroquerie and that direct debits unexpected money had been made abroad.
According to this document, a bank employee had to recover access data and credit cards for security reasons or the victim was invited to accept the LuxTrust-Mobile requests or scan a QR code via the application. Previously, the victims had clicked on a link which had been sent to them by e-mail or SMS asking them to provide their access data for the renewal of their certificate (for example CCSS, CNS, LUXTRUST) or the payment of a fine on a false online site. Once in possession of this access data and information relating to cards or Luxtrust, the authors have debited “considerable sums”, the police report.
The authorities recall that such requests do not correspond to the way of proceeding with administrations, companies or serious banks. “These will never ask you to give your cards to strangers or send them personal data by phone. If you are not sure that it is an attempted scam, do not be put under pressure and contact the company or the bank concerned, “warns the police, before providing some advice on the subject ::
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