American Expatriate Costa Rica

ICE warns about fraud by email

Recently, the citizens have received fake emails from the Costa Rican Electricity Institute (ICE) where the recipients are asked to complete a survey to obtain a prize.

In doing so, they are redirected to a site and asked personal data and credit card number.

The institution clarifies they do not conduct such practices and that, according to their own investigations, this is a malicious mail, known as Phishing.

This type of scam intended to steal information from users to generate malicious activity.

Therefore, the ICE recommends:

– Ignoring these emails.
– Not opening any of these malicious emails.
– Avoid clicking links that come within the content or as attachments.
– Being protective of your personal data, bank accounts, passwords, email accounts or other personal information.

For more information contact 800-Denuencie or email 800-DENUNCIE@ice.go.cr.

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