The police have warned against fraudulant messages that the public have been receiving, and urged people to pay more attention, as the number of reports of people who fell for misleading messages resulting in money being stolen from them has increased.
Many people over the past days received false messages pretending to be from MaltaPost (but are not actually from the company) with the police receiving around 13 reports a day, and that the money stolen amounts to hundreds from each victim, it said. The victims are receiving messages and being informed that they need to pay a small amount to receive a package that is at the postal operator, by clicking on a link. But when clicking on the link, victims are being sent to a fake website that imitates the local postal operator's site, and victims key in their personal bank details, with the fraudsters taking far more money from their bank accounts, the police said.
The police asked the public to ignore such messages.