Fraudsters may pose for the City of Montreal

Laurence Houde-Roy

Laurence Houde-Roy

Sunday, 1 October 2017 17:03

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Sunday, 1 October 2017 17:08

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MONTREAL | fraudsters are now pretending to be the City of Montreal and send text messages in order to extract money from the victims.

The borough of Montreal-North has alerted the Montreal on Facebook by posting a photo of the text messages that some people have received recently.

The messages in question suggest that the City of Montreal would have paid for a ticket and invites the recipient to click on a link. This link leads to a page with the Interac logo and gives the impression that you can win a refund of 128,67$.

The borough of Montréal-Nord encourages the population to do not click on the link, and adds that the City of Montreal will not reimburse any finding of a violation.

This technique of phishing by text message is increasingly being used by fraudsters and used to insert a spy software in the phones in order to obtain the banking information of the victim.

Citizens have commented on the message of the borough of Montréal-Nord, indicating you have received other text messages from the genre, sometimes even full of mistakes, where the fraudster did go to Hydro-Québec, Videotron, Desjardins, or Revenue Canada.