Fraud attempts have also been made via forged letters sent by third-party companies pretending to act on Europol's behalf.ĭo not be fooled - all these letters are fake. Emails and social media messages written in multiple languages used the names of senior Europol officials such as Catherine De Bolle, Jean-Philippe Lecouffe and Jürgen Ebner in order to appear reputable and legitimate. We have been made aware of fraud attempts using fake letters claiming to come from various departments of Europol, as well as from the Executive Director, other senior officials and various international law enforcement officials. This is fake! Europol will never phone citizens about such allegations or ask them to make payments! This is known as "phone spoofing," which is the use of fake caller ID information to disguise the true source of an incoming call. We also learned that these scammers can make it appear that their calls are from real Europol numbers. They then ask the victims to provide personal information and make payments while posing as Europol officers. The scammers tell their victims that they are involved in serious crimes or are the victims of a crime like identity theft. Scammers call individuals under the pretense of representing Europol. The first source is a real Europol information page, warning of the calls in English and pointing out that Europol NEVER calls people. And indeed, there were already indications of this call scam:
Fake call is a scam attemptĪfter I got the first call, I wondered what it was and looked it up on the internet. If I get a third call, I'll just name a few made-up dates and see what the goal of the calls is. My number was apparently on the list several times, because less than two days later the same call came again. The funny fake Europol official then hung up – clear sign: fake call.
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