Watch out for dangerous phishing fraud related to customs service from shops outside the European Union
From July 1 this year. Poczta Polska will take over customs of shipments from outside the European Union. Performing this important role has become an excuse for cyber criminals to conduct dangerous phishing actions. These actions consist in directing in private users infected messages containing a request to supplement customs documentation regarding goods purchased in Asian online stores. Fulfilling the request threatens to lose personal data or money. Poczta Polska asks for prudence and reporting the above incidents.
Building a valuable and trustworthy brand is a long -lasting, expensive and involving many areas in the field of the company's operations. The most popular and best brands, with an established market and consumen position, are most often exposed to attacks of criminals operating in the internet space. Phishing attacks reconcile not only in the good name and interests of these well -known and respected companies, but also in private individuals, which often fall victim to fraud in the form of fraud of sensitive personal data, and even losing money from bank accounts.
Poczta Polska informs that a new scam of fraud using users' ignorance regarding the implementation of the European Union has appeared in the internet space, including so -called VAT package for e-commerce. Since the change in the way of dealing with shipments is a new issue, the internet fraudsters decided to use this fact by sending false emails to customers in which they encourage to open the shocked attachment or link.
After clicking on the attachment or link in the received message, the computer can be infected with a virus, in this case a Trojan horse that will allow criminals to steal data and take control of the computer. In the case of the latest cyber criminals attack, which has been detected, the user may also be asked to log in to the bank or other websites. This threatens to transfer sensitive personal data and even losing money from bank accounts. We categorically explain that Poczta Polska does not send emails about customers to customers and never asks its clients for banking data.
Please report all this type of message to the following addresses: incident@poczta-polska.pl or cyber security@poczta-polska.pl . Please also send the suspect message as an attachment, and not through "pass on", because it makes the analysis of the e-mail difficult and delays the determination of the perpetrator.
It is worth recalling that from July 1 this year. Poczta Polska will take over customs of shipments from outside the European Union, becoming an entity making customs applications working for the recipient of the parcel, i.e. intermediate representative. This means that the post office may submit a customs declaration for the customer making a purchase in an online store in Asia.
The new regulations are to limit the scale of uneven competition, which currently for European producers are operators of electronic trade from outside EU countries, who provide goods to the markets of EU member states, to a large extent without paying the customs and VAT.