Polish Oil Mining and Gas Extraction (PGNiG) warns against fraudulent SMS messages, scammers suggest the need to settle a payment.

Example of the text message: PGNIG: Please be advised that due to debt in the amount of PLN 12.45, we ordered the gas to be disconnected for the next working day.

According to PGNiG, text messages are sent from different phone numbers and should be considered as SPAM. Moreover, PGNiG customers may receive fake emails where the subject of the email concerns information on arrears. The victim, as in the text message, is informed about the debt, which should be settled as soon as possible, using the link to eBOK (the message contains a hyperlink). Fraudulent emails come from no-reply@epgnig.pl, and the official PGNiG e-mail addresses are based on the pgnig.pl domain.