"Telekom update": Consumer Advisory Center warns of a new round of phishing

This is how you protect yourself from fake emails

Phishing emails are currently issued on behalf of Telekom. Criminals use the theme "Telekom Refresh" to try to lure you into dangerous websites. We revealed how to protect ourselves from fake emails.

Sending phishing emails is one of the most common scams on the Internet. Criminals placed links to fraudulent websites in fake emails. As the Consumer Advisory Center warns, you should be extremely careful about the April telecom phishing. The subject line "Telekom update" is used here.

As an excuse for unknown offenders, Telekom hopes to improve the quality of its own services. The email also contains Telekom's official logo. The Consumer Advisory Center will also show the text that criminals want to trick you:

Dear account user,
You need to check your telecommunications account because we will close some unused emails
This will cause our system to malfunction because these emails are not used.
To avoid closing emails.
Please click the link below to protect your account.
Confirm registration
This helps to improve the quality of our services. Sorry for any inconveniences caused
Case number. XYZ
Telecom Company ID Customer Service Copyright 2020 Inc.

If phishing emails are often difficult to identify, this is not the case for phishing emails. You can see from many spelling mistakes that Deutsche Telekom is not writing letters here. Telekom's excuse for saving email addresses is also incredible.

Phishing emails bring this risk

Even if the phishing email is not very trustworthy, the links it contains are dangerous. Under no circumstances should you visit the site, and under no circumstances should you log in to the page behind it. Because phishing emails are used to access your user data. The following example shows how criminals can copy the real page for this purpose without any care:

This is how criminals steal your MasterCard data

If you have clicked the link in Telekom's email and logged in, you should contact the mobile operator's customer service and change your login data. If your payment data is stolen in addition to your mobile data, you should also contact your bank.

Keep up with phishing emails

We report new phishing reports almost every day and set up your own email address for this. You can send suspicious emails to them and help us get a fresh scam. Just save the following address in your email program:

We will also share all fraud warnings on Twitter and Facebook. Therefore, just subscribe to Netzwelt on social media and wait for the next message. Alternatively, you can find all current fraud warnings in the linked overview.

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