Alert for a new scam via SMS messages who uses the MRW company to steal money from your customers. The shipping company has set off alarms by detecting that last Monday, December 27, someone tried to scam his customers by sending fraudulent mobile text messages, posing as this company and claiming “alleged additional costs for shipping.”
In a statement, MRW has reported that it has already reported these events to the police authorities, who have referred the case to justice “adopting the appropriate procedures.”
More specifically, the text message contained a link that redirected to “a fraudulent web page, which had been created with a appearance and content very similar to the official website by MRW “.
On that website, MRW customers were asked to pay “alleged additional costs for shipping”, although the portal is currently inactive after the action of the judicial authorities. MRW has also notified the “security breach” detected to the Spanish Agency for Data Protection, although it ensures that the only data that has been affected are those of a natural or legal person and the address of origin and destination.
The company clarifies that “The amounts to be paid for the transport are those stipulated in the contracting of the service or, where appropriate, in the economic transaction made by the recipient, in the acquisition or sale of a product “, and adds that” MRW does not intervene in money transactions by purchase / sale between individuals or companies. ”
If any of your clients have been the object of this fraud, MRW asks that the bank be contacted “as soon as possible” corresponding to “proceed to cancel the transactions that may have been made, as a precaution.
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