Fake e-mail alerting to coronavirus May leak personal information January 22, 22:06
In the case of a public health center in Kyoto Prefecture, it was found that fake emails calling for attention to a new type of coronavirus were circulating. If you open a fake email attachment, you may be infected by a computer virus, and health centers have called for deleting suspicious emails.
According to the Kyoto Prefectural Yamashiro Minami Public Health Center in Kizugawa City, Kyoto Prefecture, fake e-mails have been circulating from the 28th to warn users to respond to the new coronavirus, such as wearing masks and washing their hands, wearing masks and hand washing. .
The e-mail is written to check the attached file or the link written in the body, and if opened, it may be infected with a computer virus and the personal information etc. may be leaked.
The public health center has been receiving more than 100 inquiries about fake mail from around the country since the afternoon of March 28.
The address of the fake email is different from that of the public health center because the content of the actual email sent to the welfare facility in the jurisdiction by the public health center on 23rd of this month may have been abused .
Toshiyuki Yamashita, Deputy General Manager of Yamashiro Minami Public Health Center in Kyoto Prefecture, warned that "it is extremely malicious to exploit the new coronavirus.
Information processing promotion organization also calls attention
Regarding fake emails calling attention to the new coronavirus, the Information Processing Promotion Agency is also calling attention.
According to the report, fake emails from public health centers are intermittently scattered while changing the subject and text, and at first glance there are few unnatural points and it is difficult to judge suspicious.
The Information Processing Promotion Agency wants you to stop and think about cyber attacks when opening email attachments.