#Phone scam

The Cyprus cybercrime unit has advised the public to stay vigilant following multiple complaints about scam calls and messages impersonating automated payment service operators on Friday. This warning was prompted ...

A 76-year-old woman has reported losing €42,500 after falling victim to a telephone scam, police said on Monday. According to the police, the woman said she received a phone call earlier ...

The health insurance organisation (HIO) and the police, issued a joint warning on Wednesday about fake SMS messages impersonating the general health system (Gesy). These messages are part of a ...

Police on Thursday were investigating a complaint by a person reporting to have been swindled out of nearly €7,000 from a caller pretending to be working with Revolut. Authorities said the ...

Fraudulent SMS messages posing as alerts from the national health scheme Gesy are urging citizens to click malicious links, police warned on Tuesday. The warning follows multiple reports from people ...

Authorities on Thursday cautioned the public to be wary of a new type of phone scam where the caller pretends to be a doctor asking for money in return for ...

Fraudsters posing as police officers are targeting citizens to steal personal information and empty bank accounts, authorities warned on Tuesday. Scammers are contacting people by phone and video call, wearing ...

Police on Thursday again advised the public to exercise caution when receiving phone calls from individuals pretending to be government officials and asking for credit card and bank account information. ...

A 72-year-old woman in Nicosia fell victim to a telephone scam on Wednesday afternoon, with perpetrators managing to rob her of a sum of €52,000. According to a police statement, the ...

Police cautioned the public on Thursday to be wary of scams on WhatsApp, where individuals posing as police officers have been trying to extort bank and ID details from unsuspecting ...

The Cyprus Post on Friday warned the public about increased reports of deceptive electronic messages, specifically phishing attempts regarding recipient and address details, along with requests for small payments. Phishing ...

Police are urging the public to exercise heightened caution as a new form of telephone scam has emerged, with fraudsters posing as representatives of the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (...

An 89-year-old woman on Monday fell victim to a new ‘doctor’ phone scam and was robbed of €3,000. According to the police, the Nicosia resident reported the incident on Monday, saying ...

Police on Monday issued another warning about phone scams, where people receive calls from unknown persons urging them to invest in get-rich-quick schemes. Using mobile phone numbers starting with 94, 95, 96, 97 and 99, ...

The Cyprus Post warned on Tuesday of phishing text messages sent to the public that should be ignored. A number of people have received texts appearing to be from the ...

A new form of telephone fraud is making the rounds police warned on Friday after eight cases of attempted extortion of money came to the force’s attention. In one ...

Police warned the public over phone scams on Tuesday after receiving another complaint about a scammer impersonating a doctor who defrauded an elderly woman out of €7,000. This is the eighth ...

A new case of fraud with the perpetrator impersonating a doctor is being investigated by police on Monday. According to police statement, the case involves a foiled attempt to extort ...

Police issued a warning on Wednesday that another SMS scam is making the rounds which falsely claims that a person’s bank account has been locked. The text includes a ...

Authorities have warned the public about a phone scam where callers contacting individuals on WhatsApp pretend to be calling from the police and ask for personal details. In a statement, ...

Police on Thursday warned the public over a telephone scam following reports concerning phone calls from fake Cypriot numbers. “Scammers use fictitious Cypriot numbers and claim to be Microsoft operatives ...

Police on Monday issued a new warning against scam telephone calls from abroad. They said they had been contacted by members of the public who had found missed calls from ...