Did you recently get a text message informing about a small fee for an expired listing or a surcharge for a package? Watch out, you might lose a large amount of money.

Police warns against dangerous scheme in which fraudsters send text messages concerning small charges with a link to a fake payment page. Thanks to this criminals can intercept login and password which are used to clear out your banking account.

Police stresses that such messages should be cautiously verified and if you decide to click on the link to the bank’s website, pay attention to the actual website address – make sure that it’s the matching the actual address and that it uses properly verified https certificates.

Niebezpiecznik website posted an extensive article on current campaigns related to such payment fraud and it is definitely worth reading.