The National Police has alerted of a new scam. It is a court summons sent via email. the victim is accused of allegedly committing sexual crimes via Internet.
To carry out this ‘phishing’ attack, the cybercriminal sends a document that looks official, although it is not. Appears signed by Francisco Jose Pardo PiquerasChief of the National Police, and by Jurgen StockSecretary General of Interpol.
The letter informs the person that he is “the subject of several ongoing legal proceedings” and is called to “appear before the Madrid court”. Specifically, the victim is sued for the following crimes:
In addition, a brief explanation is added: “He has committed these crimes after having been attacked on the Internet (pornographic site), having looked at child pornography sites, having looked at photos of naked children.”
As with all scams, there is a purpose. In this case it is get the personal data. To achieve this objective, they include the following text: «To avoid ending up in the media and suffering your reputation, personality and moral integrity, we ask you to contact us as soon as you receive this subpoena by email, write down your justifications so that they can be reviewed to assess criminal sanctions within a strict period of 36 hours. If it is not done within this period, they threaten to “issue an immediate arrest warrant” and register the name of the victim in the National Registry of Sexual Offenders.
Faced with this cyberattack, the National Police emphasizes that “it is not real.” “It’s not us. The Police do not report something like this or request personal data through emails,” he says.
To avoid being scammed, the Police recommend directly delete any file of this type that it be received
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