The Police recommends special attention to the public, following a number of reports it has received from citizens, regarding fraud by persons falsely posing as government officials and aiming to steal money from bank accounts.
The perpetrators in particular, through phone calls from mobile and landline phone numbers, communicate with citizens and falsely present themselves as officials of government services, such as the Social Insurance Services and the Cyprus Electricity Authority, instruct citizens to disclose their bank account details and bank cards and to take some actions, such as transaction confirmation, with the aim of extracting money from them through their bank cards.
The public is invited to be particularly careful and take the following protective measures:
- Do NOT respond to the calls and instructions received from the perpetrators
- Not disclose to other persons sensitive information such as passwords, usage codes and PIN codes, identity details and bank card and account details
- Citizens can verify the identity of the people who call them by communicating through the official channels of the Services that those individuals claim to represent
